The first article argues that knives from makers are too expensive, while the second is also an effective argument to say why knives are not expensive enough. If the author had actually done the research, it would be clear that the reason why some professional knife makers knives are so expensive is too address all the concerns made in the second article (and I base this on details read here in the forum). I've had a knife maker expressly say to me that they have stopped "working cheap" to explain a price increase.
While there may have been a general desire for true interest, writing an article while overlooking or not even acknowledging points in an article that they just wrote a few months before (as in the two noted), to me seems of just trying to generate content as the random reader may only see the one article. In contrast, look at the way Larrin develops and back-references his old info on Knife Steel Nerds
