On my first one made (blue one on web) I saw the lock fail and wanted to have less area when disengaging the lock.
We were setting up a funeral home tent at a church, when a new hole needed to be cut to insert a pole. The owner using my knife had put a lot of pressure gripping the knife to punch a hole thru pieces of the tent, when the blade came down and cut his finger. The knife is a left handed knife and he was using it in his right hand. I feel that using it in the wrong hand was also a problem.
Rick