I'm with you on that. I've seen silk ones that I was hard pressed to determine that they were silk, they were that good.
Nice thing about that is, no killing it by forgetting to water it. You can just wrap it up in a plastic bag for next year. They cost about the same as the real ones and you can reuse it for several years. A real savings there.
We have cats and can’t have live ones anyway. The cats like to chew on plants, and pointsettias are poisonous to them.