Well, I think I can understand why they use a thicker blade in their tests. That's because they want to test the steel and not a particular knife. And because the competition uses thicker blades, they also made a thick blade for that; because they want to test the steel against others and not the knife. And in this case they say for a test to be fair, the knife should have similar size and similar edge profile with competitors. And I agree with them here! I also understand their prices, which I think they reflect the production costs which are very high.

However, regarding toughness, I still have serious doubts regarding impact resistence of a 65-68 HRC edge.