Honestly if the fake tree looks nice and costs less money, then so what?
Not like millions of people dont use them.
My wife and I stopped buying real Christmas trees 30+ years ago. Since then we've had two artificial trees. The current one has lasted over 20 years and is still in great shape. The pre-strung lights quit working 5 years ago or so We just cut them out of the tree and put up new strings of lights.
It's an 8 ft tree (our ceilings are 9 ft.) and that big of a tree became too expensive to buy every year just to throw them out after the holiday. Helped our Christmas budget too.
All of the environmental wackos should be pleased that some people don't cut down real trees every year to use for 2 or 3 weeks at most. But then the wackos are usually radical Leftists and don't believe in or celebrate Christmas anyway. 😂