I've always been a fan of serrated knives. Mostly after the fact as a "knife guy" but even before that I remember using an AUS-6 Meerkat SE and AUS-8 Dragonfly for far longer than they should have been used. As a part-time Starbucks barista when my wife was in college I had a white Ladybug SE which was my "go-to" box knife and general thing-opener. It made it 2.5 years of casual use and I may have spent a minute or two touching up the scallops every 6 months, if that.
As a present for Father's Day I bought my Dad a PE Dragonfly Salt. Great little knife on all accounts. The problem is he lives most the year in Cali and brought the knife with him. He's mostly retired and just uses knives for opening things from Costco and little house tasks. I visited him and it was DULL to the nth degree.
Part of giving gifts that you are passionate about is to let them go. Like freeing a bird into the wild :p or maybe an insect in this case. Doing it again I think I would have bought him a SE version. Even when they get dull the functional advantage of having such a knife over your teeth, fingernails, keys, or any other improvised cutting tool is a blessing.
If the person you are shopping for knows what a sharpening stone is this might not be as important. For people who are more likely to lose the knife than to sharpen it, SE might just be a good investment for them.
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