Sounds great to me. From what you describe it would be the best of everything.

Only thing I could see is that it's still subjective. There are the hair tests but I gather they're not definitive and can give a false "pass" when there is still something fundamentally not right.

For the bevel setting stage and "sharpening" (as opposed to polishing/finishing) I'd think there would some more objective measure. Why not the microscope/magnified inspection? The $13 RS microscope seems to be barely passable but it's effective and within everybody's grasp. A good set of edge pictures with "correct" ones and "wrong" ones should give a beginner a pretty objective measure of their edge in this stage of the honing process. Wouldn't it?