If you take in the Apple Pencil and iPad to the Apple Store and explain the situation they might replace the screen for free and if you're lucky maybe the pencil if the other tip is damaged. Sucks this happened though. 
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iPad Pro My Apple Pencil finally scratched my IPP screen.
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If you take in the Apple Pencil and iPad to the Apple Store and explain the situation they might replace the screen for free and if you're lucky maybe the pencil if the other tip is damaged. Sucks this happened though.
It’s never a wasted option to at least *explain* the situation to the Apple store, and every Apple store might react differently with providing different resolutions for the customer, but being that is something that the user caused inadvertently, I’m not willing to believe they would replace the display for ‘free’, but I would just opt for a screen protector as a cheaper solution if somebody didn’t have AppleCare or the if the price was to expensive to replace the display.
A matte screen protector is an option to cut down on glare and fingerprints while also protecting the screen, but it does reduce the screen's clarity. Again, two steps forward, one step back.
Matte screen protectors introduce haziness and grain. Another crime against the beautiful retina screen.
That is generally true, but a good quality matte protector keeps that haziness to a minimum.
Obviously it is a matter of personal preference...
My beautiful retina screens looked like trash with fingerprints marring the view. For me, that is far more distracting (because the fingerprint smudges were uneven over the entire screen) that a slight loss in crispness (which is even over the entire screen).
My 12.9 iPad Pro and 2018 iPad look beautiful with those matte protectors. But then again I've been squarely in the matte over glossy for screens since I bought my first ThinkPad (back in 1992).
It's like bezel colors... there are those who require white bezels, others, black.
True and fair enough.
I just wish someone would come out with a screen protector that was anti-glare, anti-fingerprints, but didn't reduce screen quality.