It doesn't matter. I have good knives. I have good cutting boards. I have decent skillets, but not great. If you can't cook with heat, you can't cook.
Bad knives are hard.
But you know, my grandmother would have a steak knife and she'd use that. She'd peel a potato and she'd cut it in her hand. I mean, we all had grandmothers who did that kind of stuff. Big fucking deal. It's not about that.