I appreciate knives for being knives. When you start using them as multi-tools, you start to create problems.
Back in the old days of the American woodsman, the standard primary tool was a hatchet, and it has never stopped being the great survival tool it was. For example, today’s incarnation are tools like:
The Trucker’s friend
http://i.imgur.com/S76oFYB.jpg
The Yes tool (copper-beryllium alloy against sparks)
http://i.imgur.com/4k2NbeY.jpg
The crash axe
http://i.imgur.com/8s8YDh7.jpg