Creeping thyme is quite nice Stays soft and low Not as aggressive as mint though, so you might have to make space vs just letting the mint go
Of the rest of herbs I grow (basil, rosemary, parsley, cilantro, chives/winter onions, oregano) the oregano isn’t too woody or tall. It gets a bit leggy, though it could just be fallen over and accepting of is new life. Also a lot oregano varieties to work with. Nice hot oregano
Unclear how it would directly complete with other plants.
Depending on the type, it may get about 2 to 3 feet tall and develop woody stems. Our contained patch (pavement on 2 sides and the house foundation on the other 2) frequently gets overgrown/bushy by July. Does get little white flowers and attracts all the bees. But I’d dislike having a yard made of the stuff. Woody stem portions get pokey on bare feet, and I’m not sure it’d stay dense enough to keep the other tall plants down.
“Well” describes an amount of time in this instance, though thats only implied. “Shortly” could be considered it’s opposite here.
Does the thickness skin impact it’s ability to feel pain?
It doesn’t. Burn a slip of paper with a lighter. Now burn an orange. Notice how the the outer layer reacts to the fire?
Your nerve endings also exist in the outer most layer (your mouth vs your deeper flesh)
Are you a mammal? Congratulations, you have TRPV1 receptors in your mucus membranes (avian supremacy ftw). They exist to keep potato brain mammals from eating hot things. These will fuck up your insides. Apparently enough of a problem that mammals needed them. Fun fact: this is enough of a problem that ancestral peppers evolved a means to exploit it and exclude mammals.
But off topic. There’s no quantity of flesh that will make your mouth heat proof. Turns out first degree burns still hurt like fuck.
Some used to be that way.
Youtube has folks that dig way too deep into Elder scrolls lore and several use the format. Those work from “literally stated in the game” to "if you read these books in game in this mobile only title from 2001, look at questionably cannon dev comments, and look at the assets names, you’ll find this reoccurring thread "