While there are places in the world where you need to have a machete to actually hike, they are very few and far between, and certainly not something for casual

While there are places in the world where you need to have a machete to actually hike, they are very few and far between, and certainly not something for casual and amateur hikers. 99+% of people who bring a machete hiking absolutely don't need it and if they even use it, it is only hack randomly and pointlessly destroy vegetation.