I always lightly honed the cylinders with a fine stone. Are you saying
not to do this?
The worry here is the rings wont seat properly and then the engine will
use too much oil.
What I have also found is engines that are well maintained on oil
today, never seem to have a ridge.
And I have also noticed the cylinders look very good. I resealed the
heads on my 1993 350 with 170000 miles and there was no ridge, the
cross marks were still there.
I also like to use synthetic oil, but I think the oils today are really
much better.