Linerlocks can be made right, and Spyderco is front and center doing them...
The steel is a local Chinese product equivalent to AUS8, in the opinion of the knowledgeable. It certainly isn't the typical junk steel so often found on American slipjoints...
If the Spyderhole was a huge defect in blade strength...
As for price, another bogus whine...
For $40, you get a much superior knife compared to American "junk." (Heavy irony to those who know.)
Spyderco sells them, Spyderco does not make them. Artisans in China make these knives.
And what does the piss-poor performance of most factory slipjoints have to do with it? Few buyers appear willing to pay for a high perfermance steel in a slipjoint - so few such knives are offered. I thank Spyderco for my UKPK knives - note the price of that model.
AUS8 nor 440C are considered all that great in comparison to some of the other readily available steels. And for $40, the blade better be better than the oft seen "junk".
As for price, where is the "whine". Noting that the knife is equivalent to similarly priced products amazingly is not a "whine". It is an observation.
A hole in anything is structurally weaker. Simple strength engineering stuff and obvious to anyone. Heck, people still get doctorates studying this stuff to derive "k" factors for modelling the REDUCED strength of members with holes in them.
American workers do make more per hour than the average Chinese worker. So, American made things cost more. As for American made "junk", what constitutes "junk" is subjective.
But that does not change the fact that there are alternative $40 knives that are just as good, or bad, as the Tenacious.
When someone states that nothing bad has been said about a product, it is unclear as to why suddenly people find it required to only then step forward to extoll the "virtues". Every product has good and bad points.
Makes for more interesting posts, though, in comparison to the usually fawning.
