When the razors are finished only on the stone without any aluminum oxide, chromium oxide or diamonds following a natural hone, the edge simply won't be as good. The carbides in the steel are harder than natural abrasives. It might be a good edge, but it won't be as good as the same edge will be on carbon steel. It is extremely well known elsewhere, but there seems to be an absence of talking about it on here for some reason. I see sellers of razors (TSS etc) mentioning that they can't tell the difference in edges between stainless and carbon, and I can only gather from that that those folks are either using a modern abrasive, or they are not sharpening any of their razors very sharp with a natural stone.

I don't think there's anything wrong with maintaining a razor with pastes.

If you intend to touch up your razor only with the finest stone you have (which is what I like to do) and you are only "getting one stone" as the OP is mentioning, then it is better to touch up the razor with the hone than it is to use pastes, unless the pastes are used very sparingly, and with very light pressure.

For a razor that doesn't see pastes, 20 laps on a finish stone once a month is all that's required. Add in a couple of touch ups with a pasted strop between, and that's not true, and how far from true it is depends on how aggressive the paste and how aggressive the stropper.