Alternatives to Benchmade Bugout

I'm coming over to the dark side and getting a folding knife soon. It will be an EDC knife and a secondary knife to go along with my fixed blade casstrom forest knife when I'm sleeping in the woods. The fixed blade is a 4", blade, 5/32" thick with a scandi grind and will handle anything related to processing wood, carving, notching, drilling etc but it's not a great slicer.

I need a knife that is light and lean enough I won't mind having it in my pocket while doing a lot of hiking and going through rough terrain. It should be a good slicer to handle all the food prep and other more slicey tasks that my fixed blade is poor at. Preferably 3-3.5 inch blade. Stainless is a must, it's constantly wet or humid where I live.

The bugout seems to check all these boxes and I really like the aesthetic of it, but I've seen concerns about the omega spring breaking, and other comments about it not being a great value for the price.

What other good alternatives exist that are as close to the bugout as possible?