You’re ok. I don’t have one of these, but the angle looks to be above 45 or so. Shallow planes are down at 20 or lower. If you make a sketch of the iron angle and the typical bevel angle, you’ll immediately see why there’s a difference. Very high angle planes are specialized, and you’re not likely to see one, but they’re more like scrapers, and their bevels can be anything. Long ago, when power planes, routers and sandpaper weren’t around, woodworkers had to really understand their tools, and optimize them carefully to get any work done at all!
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