We do not yet have a Palisade but we have kids. We have never had trouble with the leather seats in any car. The car seats tend to make dents in the seats, but those go away once you remove the seats. We even found something that had melted under one of the seats once and we managed to chip it up and out and it was fine after some leather conditioner. We always get black interior.
The one issue we had was that the kids muddy boots would leave marks on the back of the front seats. We found these plastic over hang things that also had some pockets in them for the kids' junk.
For us, we found that black leather interior was fairly indestructible for kids and carseats but the seat backs were not.