Getting upset that a knife didn't come out of the box razor sharp is like being upset when a toy doesn't come with batteries.
You don't really expect it to, but it's a nice surprise when it does.
The way I look at it is most of the time I don't really like how the factory edge is ground. They're gound for the "mainstream" user. It's a good, fairly sturdy grind that will take a good workable edge and is easy to sharpen for 95% of the knife using population.
I buy knives with different ideas in mind. For heavy use knives I put an edge on that'll stand up to heavy use. It may not cleanly slice newspaper every time, but it'll cut through what I need it to cut through.
For smaller knives I tend to go with a thinner edge to make it a slicer. One of the meanest slicers I have is an old Buck 503 with a 440c blade. When I got it, it was slightly used, but still had the factory edge. I thinned it considerably.
Multi-bladed slipjoints are my favorite out of the box because you have so many options on what kind of work you intend each blade to do.
If they're not sharp, you're going to have to sharpen it eventually anyway. So no, I don't care if the knife isn't sharp. But I do care, and get pretty annoyed, when edge grinds aren't even... even if I am going to change them.
