I've got more than my fair share of LN and LV planes (what can I say, SWMBO buys them for me as presents and better than ties or shoes). Yes I use a few of them, but not all of them. Once you get used to a certain plane, it is very hard to move to another. For me (since mid 2019), it is my MF #3, my 5-1/2 Bailey and my LN jointer.
Now to the unicorn edge: The power buffing makes this very easy (I tried it last week!), but the fact is, many of us have been doing this for quite a while, though with a strop. I've had problems how many seem to think a low angle grind is bad, and it might very well be. But my stropping of the edge changes the angle with which the chisel enters the wood. I'm not a sharpening aficionado and I don't really think a bunch about the sharpening angle, some might be very low, some not so low.
If the thunder don't get you, the lightning will.