Yeah, but where's the fun in that? A little solvent use by informed adults isn't all bad. Just keep the kiddoes and their delicate, growing brains out where the air stays fresh.
I like to do a tapeless bevel reset on every razor that joins my herd, so I know the bevel and the spine are in synch and that I put them there. I don't use a DMT for this, so don't have the trouble from errant grits scratching near the spine... but have had that happen with coti slurry. Beside the point.
The other reason I like to do a tapeless intro to my razors is that I can also ensure that the spine takes the same polish as the edge. That means not moving up a grit until all the previous grit's scratch pattern is gone from the spine. This is a vanity thing, but I do like to see that high polish. If you're gonna have some hone wear, it might as well be the best hone wear you're capable of imparting.
OTOH, I did pretty much ruin a Greaves wedge because I didn't tape it when I shouldn't have. The lesson there is that extreme situations call for extreme measures. Yeah, definitely tape a wedge you're restoring. Or, as WadePatton said, tape until you've got the edge as clean as you want it then you can untape and proceed, if you wish. Did you say that, Wade?