That's just it, people seem to be assuming that Magnacut is a no-compromise steel with no trade-offs. But it still appears to increase toughness and at the cost of edge retention. Which I would say is not desirable by your average EDC folder user. Many of those users value edge retention and corrosion resistance a bit higher than other attributes. The current steel offerings seem plenty tough for 99% of your typical EDC folder tasks.
My early thoughts are that Magnacut has good potential for the harder use/fixed blade realm, but perhaps not so much for most folders.
One thing is for 100% certainty, Spyderco and every other maker and vendor are thrilled to have a promising shiny new steel to offer that everyone can go chase and throw money at.
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) high alloy steels are not really used much for these knives. For a very long time it was basically only simple carbon steels being used like white or blue 1/2/super for the large part the grind and sharpening were over time implicitly fine tuned to the properties of these steels and the use of these knives. Later industrial production arrived and more and more different stainless steels entered the market - and these were not always HTed properly. The best example would be VG-10 which never really took off among enthusiast users, because the knives that were widely available (mainly by Shun) had issues with chipping (my personal experience too).
