times change, opinions change. When I was in HS, it was enough to just get a good cross-hatch on the cylinders, then a few years later, people were honing with head torque plates, then it was honing machines, then it was mirror finishes in the cylinders for moly rings, then it was running hot water thru the blocks while honing. My point is what seems over the top now, may be common practice in another decade or two.
