Personally had GTI Jacara and recently the GTD Jacara (minus red colour accent) before and this time round fancied a change. Having seen and tried a mates new 7.5 GTD with Art Velour, I went with this as like the way hexagonal pattern mirrored other trim inserts outside and inside the car as well as the red lines for the door access lights in the GTI (same colour).
Still cleanable like microfibre/alcantara, but kids occasionally in the car. My BMW is leather as no cost on the 335D and would have specced it anyway as believe the leather quality is better in the BMW than VW version, having had it before on a MK5 GT TDI 170 years ago, and it sagged and lost shape very quickly and also suffered some paint peel/colour fade as well, which hopefully doesn't happen these days?
So in the main the standard Jacara is a good option and lived with it for many years and lifts the cabin a lot. If you are like me and love VW cars GTI/GTD/R etc then you could eventually sample all the flavours anyway...
That's my thought's anyway