Revisiting 'cuz I'm curious if anything more happened. When I considered this experiment my mind was drawn to the earliest days when I looked into honing kitchen cutlery. I was sharpening quite regularly, at the initial learning phase, all with the ease of mind that I was actually preserving the life of the blade by regularly shaving off steel because when the blade is maintained well there is no additional degradation of the edge due to impacted parts being impacted further through crushing against the items being cut, rather than being cut cleanly. Now, open razors aren't the same kind of steel as the soft modern cutlery but whatever rolling or flipping of the razor's little "fins" that occur from repeatedly cutting through hair is going to build up a messy and troubled edge. If the edge doesn't realign itself... all those untrue sections of the edge, however off they may be, will have accelerated degradation when not realigned by the competent shaver.
I swear I can feel the difference in the blade's edge at the end of my shave. I haven't experimented much with re-softening my hairs with another hot towel soaking so my experience may be exaggerated but I truly believe I can discern at this point when I haven't adequately stropped my blade (I like to stick with the same one for awhile for clarity and familiarizing myself with different razor designs and steels).
I'd love to hear more, such as a 48 hour resting experiment.