Plywood furniture is garbage. Plywood cabinets, ok there is a good use for the material. It’s just a shortcut for not having to account for wood movement, but the veneer they put on modern plywood can be scraped through by looking at it wrong. It’s undersized (3/4” is not 3/4” thick) to save money, it’s only got a couple layers, and half the time the middle layer looks like pressed sawdust. Baltic Birch is the only decent stuff, but the cost of it is prohibitive.

The stores you mentioned, even when the furniture is $3000, is made a step up from IKEA in that it’s not pressboard, but it’s probably veneered or made to look “distressed” and dyed as a way to hide the wood it’s made from. You’ll see screws instead of mortise and tenon joints, you’ll see comically obvious grain mismatches, the stuff is just sloppy.

Find a local woodworker, pick timeless styles and get it made from a wood that isn’t that expensive but is beautiful and easy to work like cherry. It will cost something similar to what crate and barrel charges, and you’ll have it in 50 years.