I whole-heartedly disagree. If I don't have any other hone, I might use a dingle-berry hone, but it will absolutely hide any taper.
One of the pistons that came out of the engine, and one of the piston rings could be used to look for cylinder taper. Use the piston to square the ring, slide the ring down the cylinder bore in steps, while looking at the end-gap in several places down the bore. If the end-gap is the same all the way down the cylinder (usually widest at the top of the ring-travel area (just below the "ridge") of each cylinder, but not always) then there's no taper.
The core Vortec short-block I rebuilt for my K1500 had 0.0015 taper on each of seven cylinders. This exceeds GM's "service limit" by half-a-thousandth. I dingle_berry-brushed 'em, put 'em together with new rings, and it's in and driving. When I went through Tech School, we were told that if a cylinder had less than .007 (bellmouth) taper, it could be used for a grocerey-getter, or Grandma's Church car. Now GM says max taper allowable is .001. I think the truth is somewhere in-between, but closer to GM's figure than Grandma's. At .003 taper, I'd have bored 'em all. Between .0015 and .003, it would depend on my mood, the state of my wallet, and the intended purpose of the vehicle.
(The eighth cylinder had a divot from water trapped on the top ring during storage of the short block at the Treasure Yard before I bought it, which rusted a portion of the cylinder wall. That cylinder got bored and honed, and a new + .030 piston.)
There's three main kinds of hones; what's needed; or what's "best" depends on various factors.
1. Rigid hone Used after boring to remove several thousandths of material, making the cylinder round and straight.
2. Flex-hone "Dingle_berry Brush" Used to recondition cylinders with minimal wear, or to provide a final surface finish for freshly bored and rigid-honed cylinders.
3. Spring-loaded hone like a brake cylinder hone. Far as I'm concerned, the least-useful style, having many of the disadvantages of the other two, with few of the advantages of either.