In the pub kitchen where I had my first job, all the knives were really cheap (because commercial kitchen), and regularly sharpened (because professional chefs). Some of them were practically banana shaped from being sharpened so many times. They still cut nicely though, despite being dumped in a drawer most of the time, and sharpened by untrained idiots (ie me).
So for me, cheap knives are good enough.
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