You both have good points. My scrapper is not as sharp as I would have liked, but I am sure that a couple of seconds with my steel will have it shaving hair. This does not bother me. All of my swamp rats and busse knives have been very sharp from the get-go, up to now, regardless of what steel they are made of.
I bought a buck general at cabela's this weekend. I spent around 50 bucks for it, and it came so sharp out of the box it is virtually a razor. I do understand how tyuio would expect our puppies to be equally as honed when new.