Comparison of steels is difficult at best.
The theory of design in relation to the steel's most salient properties is relatively simple:
certain steels allow you to grind the blade thinner because they may be tougher/less brittle, more shock absorbent, more wear resistant, and so on and so forth.
If you make 10 knives of 10 steels in the same thickness and height of grind that isn't a fair comparison because some steels could be ground thinner due to their properties, which other steels couldn't handle. A2 springs to mind here, and S30V from the stainless steels: you could easily make a thinner knife which by definition would be a more efficient slicing tool. In the case of A2, it is much tougher than D2 and if you decided to capitalise on this it might be more accurate a test to try a 2.5mm - 3mm thick A2 blade with a 4mm D2. And that doesn't take the massive variables of heat treating into account.
All you do by testing different steels with identical grind heights and thickness is find out which steel is best suited for that grind height/thickness combination in relation to the testing it is put through, which may or may not reflect real world tasks. This isn't to say that a test blade that manages fewer cuts is poorer steel - just that the design was not as suited to the material.
That's a lot of words to say that any testing has to be controlled and a good O1 blade will keep pace with most steels out there, unless the design has been reworked to fully capitalise on the steels characteristics properly.
Think of it as optimising the design to take the materials into account rather than inflicting a less than optimal design on some materials and hitting lucky with one or two.
In the above example the very obvious difference is the height of the grind which will give completely different results, even if both blades were made of the same steel.
Two factors govern knife performance above all others (not including the human element that the user brings to the mix):
1. heat treating
2. edge geometry
Any steel can be made into a good or bad knife, and any good knife can be used well or badly.
If your Woodlore had a higher grind or the Enzo a lower one, the story would be very different, regardless of whether they were O1 or D2.
