There are so many factors that play into it from my honing. The three factors that make the edge is the steel, the stone, and the hand. There are more factors than that for the shave, but that also plays into it a bit. As my abilities have progressed in both shaving and honing my taste for edges has evolved too. I still have the bad habit of taking an edge too far though. It is not comfortable, I often call it prickly. I suspect that those edges also have a very short life span as well, although have never wanted to shave with one enough to prove that. I think our shaving and honing tastes evolve over very long periods of time and I suspect they are never really static.