That looks like a useful kitchen knife especially for a boat, RV, cabin, BBQ or camping. It would be cool if it had a sheath so one can throw it in a bag and go. It seems good size, all around blade if you're only using one knife.
Here's my understanding of Spyderco & kitchen knives.
Spyderco actually dabbled in kitchen knives before Sal invented the tactical folding knife category. It's can be argued that he introduced the first Santokus to the US market in the early 1980s.
The original Spyderco business was traveling to gun and trade shows selling two products that Sal invented: the "Portable Hand", a spider shaped 3rd hand tool to help jewelers and hobbyist assemble small things, and the Tri Angle Sharpmaker. It was while selling at these shows that Sal saw the need for tactical folding knives for the Serve and Save community. Something between the gentlemen's slip joint and the folding hunting knives (Buck 110) that were the only folding options for hard core use. His big ideas included the hole to allow one hand opening and the pocket clip, neither of which had been done before. He just had to figure out how to make the knives...
Al Mar and other friends introduced Sal to manufacturers that could execute his designs. The Japanese knife factories he visited were stamping out western handled kitchen knives for the emerging Japanese market. Sal recognized that these thin, stamped blades performed really well and were a viable alternative to what was available in the US, so he imported some. The knives he imported included the model K08, the first commercially available Santoku in the US. He stopped importing kitchen knives when the folding knife business took off.
Spyderco got back into the kitchen knife business because its key retailers (Blade HQ, Knifeworks, Knife Center etc) all sell kitchen knives and created the demand.
In addition to the new kitchen knife designs, they reintroduced the original series including the K08 Santoku. That is why those knives don't have the Spyderhole. The design predates the trademark issues.
I don't think Spyderco is marketing the kitchen knives to kitchen knife enthusiast. It's more about giving Spyderco's core customers an alternative to the crappier kitchen knives they'd buy otherwise. I'd say they pulled that off pretty well...