I think Fiver invented the term "glide". We know what it means, not greasy/slippery, not tacky, but like feeling fine silk cloth. "Feathering" is a term I stuck with, you know it when see it, a characteristic of highly-branched waxes.
Cohesion is a handling property, not a shooting property. The thixotropic property is super-important to accurate, consistent lube, and it's an easy feel test, sort of a "work softening" test. Greasy...not good. Lube should rub away to nothing between your fingers, and wipe away leaving no residue that can be felt. Gritty lubes often shoot well at high speed, reference the old thread Fiver started entitled "does your lube have enough friction?"
Alox lubes have little use at my house except for Ben's Liquid Lube, which cured the chronic calcium ash build/purge cycle of virtually every other film concoction out there. A little beeswax melted into 45/45/10 is almost as good, in fact better if you just use BW, LLA, and Stoddard solvent.
One of the essential attributes of a good lube is being soft, but in Texas or anywhere else that it gets really hot in the summer soft lubes won't work the way I like without a serious dose of grease thickener of some kind so they don't slump or weep in the heat, but will go liquid quickly under pressure and jettison at the muzzle (provided it isn't TOO cohesive and doesn't have a bunch of other high-melting stuff in it to keep the viscosity too high too long).
