Stropping With Abrasive After Burr-Free Sharpening Dulls Blade, Kills Slicing Agression (no replies)

I have noticed that when I use a burr-less or burr-free method of sharpening, if I strop with abrasive, no matter the compound, no matter the substrate, the knife gets duller and slicing aggression is reduced. It is like the sharp apex is abraded away. This is with edges that are coming off 3u and up, like the DMT EEF, White Ceramic, Spyderco UF Ceramic, and Dan's Black Arkansas. If I am lucky, and only do 2 passes per side, the edge polish is increased and I didn't kill the edge, but it isn't sharper. If I burr sharpen, it works as long as I don't cut off the burr on the stone as best I can, then the abrasive strop doesn't really sharpen that edge. It works as long as I use it as the next step in my grit progression. Even then, it doesn't get any sharper than burr-less/burr-free sharpening, or just cutting the burr off on the stone. Using plain linen/canvas and plain leather, the edge doesn't lose slicing aggression, and push cutting is slightly increase, or at least hair whittling ability is.