Sola's aspheric spectralite lenses (ASL) were the only front aspheric st28 available. Put hundreds of folks into it that were wearing poly and 1.67....
The wrap does cause more base out, that is what they said. To compensate design the lens with counterbalancing base in prism. Opticampus calculators...
There won't be any resemblance at all. Essilor and Zeiss approach progressive design from entirely different angles, making their philosophies polar...