Why is the standard to strop on plain leather every day and hone every few months instead of honing once and maintaining indefinitely by doing only a few strokes every day on a pasted strop?

It seems like it's a choice between letting the edge slowly deteriorate until the shave is noticeably/significantly worse and then doing a full honing session/sending it off and just stropping a few times per day on a pasted strop and always having a 'fresh' edge.

I was gonna speculate as to the responses I'd get, and give my thoughts on them, but I'll just see what you guys actually say first