I tried AEB-L courtesy of these tests and your page on it - I mentioned failure with AEB-L, but I think I was wrong. I heated the iron in open atmosphere and left it at high heat for a couple of minutes (not 10, but just shooting for getting some of the carbides dissolved and not ruining the steel going overboard). Fairly sure the initial softness (same thing this time) is just a decarb layer as after honing a few times, the iron is hard and has great wear resistance. I never would've thought to try it. The array that I tested including feet planed (which is sort of a cross to a push cut as you mentioned, but with some side forces at the same time would be like a 45 degree push cut instead of straight in)..
1084 steel - 997 feet
1095 steel - 836 feet (toughness problems with the initial edge that eventually wore off, but small failures in the initial edge in my experience with wood greatly reduces feet planed)
O1 - 1231 feet
52100 - 1235 feet
AEB-L - 2000 feet on average in two tests (a huge surprise!)
The hardness for all is similar (no way to test other than gauge how easily each sharpens on , though I don't know for sure with AEB-L - high heat, oil quench and then temper at 300F - it feels like 60 to low 60s
the AEB-L number seemed outlandish on the first test, so I did a second. Wonderful uniform wear - and maybe the material being wood leads to a different result than a silica impregnated card (I'm beginning to think that chromium carbides are the woodworker's friend -the AEB-L result is about even with 3V in a prior test vs. the O1 iron in this group, but it works on a wider variety of normal sharpening stones that woodworkers use.
I really ran this test to see if a higher hardness 52100 iron would beat my "regular", the O1 steel iron at a higher hardness, and threw in the AEB-L expecting not to see much from it as I don't know what I'm doing with it yet with my atmospheric HT limitations. You mentioned above in your write up that you expected something different for O1 (I don't remember what it was, but if you said similarities to 52100, I found that).