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Easily opened for sure, but cleanly? I bet not. The knife will be clean and smooth, and satisfying. The cardboard will never see it coming.
Lol ... as a kid one of my first jobs was working at a grocery store. I learned early on from older people at the same job how to separate the tape and peel it off as fast as possible. If the box had more than one strip of tape, you just used the pointed edge of anything to snap the tape ..... a pencil,a pen, a nail, a screw, a clipboard, sometimes just even a fingernail.
As soon as you remove the tape, you cleanly get at everything inside without damaging anything.
I once watched a friend of mine at the same job saying that he knew better and always used an exacto knife. After he ruined several boxes of merchandise, they took away his knife.
This depends entirely on the type of tape it is. There's plenty of ripstop tech in packing tapes now and adhesives that are stronger than the boxes they're bound to, both of which make a mess if you try to tear in a straight line.
They make safety openers for that which have the blade shielded.
https://www.primepac.co.nz/products/labels-mailing-stationery/knives-cutters/sterling-safety-box-cutters/