I have read about pyramid honing and some of the discussion in the forum and my question is: Is it not fundamentally wrong to go back and forth between honing grits? I mean, if you hone on the 4K side and observe that the edge is honed evenly, then move to the 8K side and hone till you have an edge honed evenly to the 8K degree, by going back to 4K you destroy the smoothness of the 8K edge. What good could come of making a nice edge then "scratching it up" with a lowwer grit? I always thought that sharpening was a stedy progression.
Don't get me wrong here, I am only wanting to understand the reasoning behind the method, and I am not dismissing the idea.

Humbly new to this,
Emil