I took the thumb studs off my big Cold Steel folder. They just slow down or hang up the draw from the pocket. The blade opens easily one-handed with a back and down flick motion.
The Sebenza thumb stud doesn’t protrude over the handle slab so it doesn’t get caught up when drawing it from a pocket (though I mostly carry it in a pouch or not clipped to the pocket), but it won’t do an ‘inertia flick’ anyway. For me it’s a tool first and foremost. CS makes nice knives, as do Benchmade, Spyderco, etc. Good to have choices. Have you ever tried a Chris Reeve? The workmanship is simply sublime.