Sophie, you’re wrong.
Your expectations may be different from those of others. The floor can be fixed, the cabinets can be improved, and the words “should have” should be reserved for your children, not grown adults seeking input. There is absolutely nothing wrong with improving what’s there. I understand that you’re trying to save the OP from throwing good money after bad, but there is a middle ground whether you see it or not.
Also, I think you read asbestos where she wrote asphalt.
Life is rarely digital, ones or zeroes, all or nothing. Taking the view that it is limits the ways that you can be helpful. Sometimes life needs a little less hammer, and a little more nail.
H2O2, none of us is too good for Ikea, but all of us are above that comment.
Q