For me, I don't possess the skill nor the patience to learn the art of sharpening knives. I can touch one up with a steel pretty well but that's really only straightening an already sharp blade and isn't the same as taking a knife from truly dull to sharp.
The WorkSharp is perfect for people like myself that want to make things sharp but don't have the skills to do it with a stone. It takes me longer to walk from my house to the shop then it does to make a knife sharp with my WorkSharp and there is nothing to clean up when I'm done.
Is using a stone/s "better"? For somebody that truly knows what they're doing, probably so. But like I said earlier, I'm NOT one of those "somebody's" and with the WorkSharp I can make and edge very sharp and it'll stay sharp for quite some time and do it with ease in just a few minutes. I can't ask for much more than that.
