Sit down, have a cup of coffee, rest, you must be tired after all the work.

Seriously, In my area of the country and especially in my area of New England the woods are fairly dry most of the time compared to the Pacific Northwest's rain belt, and we have a pretty good mix of Hard & Soft woods, so finding decent campfire wood is not usually a problem unless you happen to be in a designated camping area or camp ground that is heavily foraged.
Most of the time you can find both hard and soft woods in the same area, so is not unusual to scrounge the lower dead branches of of pines, spruce, and cedar for tinder and kindling, and forage dry and standing dead hard wood for when your fire is going good.
Like you, I usually don't have to do a lot of processing with axe or knife to get enough wood to start and sustain a good campfire, there's usually enough stuff in the three foot or under range or that can be broken easily to that size that you don't need a cutting tool.
I don't mind sharpening my knives, hatchets or hawks, but it's not my favorite pass time, so if I can get by without using them frivolously I will, the one tool that I do count on quite a bit is a good folding saw, I've found that when it comes to cutting fire or shelter wood to length a saw will outcut a knife or small axe most any day, and with a lot less calorie loss.
Now I'll get to the heart of what I think your OP is about, everyone here that knows my posts know by now that I'm not a big fan of Mora knives or of big tactical/survival knives, they may be just the tool for some folks and I don't begrudge them for using them, and I'm sure that in different parts of the country they are the right tool for the job, for where I am and how I camp they just aren't needed, you mentioned that your go to wood processor is a Machete, while a great tool, in my area if you see someone with a Machete in hand or in the bed of their truck you know they are either cleaning up around their house or they are Landscapers/grass cutters.
My first "woods" knife was a US Marine Corp. Ka-Bar that my uncle brought back from the war and gifted to me when I was about six or seven years old, I built a lot of forts and camps in my local woods with that old and beat up knife, but as I got older and started fishing and hunting on my own I learned that it wasn't the best choice for a good all around woodsmans/sportsmans knife, later, when I got old enough to hunt with the big dogs it was reaffirmed that most of them felt that any knife with a blade over six inches was more a hinderence than a help.
That's not to say they don't have their place, they do come in handy in some situations, but for my woods and my style of enjoying the woods, not so much.
Another conformation for me that I'm not "off trail" with my thinking is watching the various "Survival" shows, the people who star in them, and what they carry, people like Cody Lundin, Ray Mears, Dave Canterbury, Bear Grills, and a few others prefer a knife with blade lengths of 4" ~ 6" inches, although there are exceptions, Myke Hawks and his wife and Joe Tedi seem to favor the longer more tactical blades, but that could be because of their military backgrounds.
But the bottom line is it comes down to personal preference and "to each his own".
