Also, as long as a hone is lapped well, it is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Once you're used to it (at least on a given blade), you're used to it.

A strop, though: I live in a place that has four distinct seasons. The strop dries, I condition it, it takes in humidity, it cups lightly at the edges, I rub them soft with my fingers, it dries again… and all this time, I'm stropping on it. The draw changes a little like this and a little like that, week in and week out. This sounds fiddly, but remember it's spread out over months and years. Still, you use a hone; you live with a strop.