no matter what you use it will age detoriate and require future
maintence.

garage floors are meant to be oily till its time to sell, then use
epoxy or whatever to dress it up

You got that right-- only a twinkle-toed wuss has a clean, shiny garage
floor.

I have a friend who painted the working surfaces of his tools. how
dumb is that once used they look bad, but hey thats why they were
bought, to be used.

garage floors are the same way