>>1733029Low alloy carbon steels barely have any carbides which is why they're tougher and easy to sharpen.
High end stainless steels have a lot of chromium carbides and some chrome vanadium carbides while high end carbon steels are generally able to form mostly vanadium carbides.
Vanadium carbides are much harder than chromium so less of it is needed for the same abrasion resistance and slicing edge retention.
https://knifesteelnerds.com/2019/07/15/carbide-types-in-knife-steels/ 