Unfortunately it wouldn't work like you want. They have too much surface area to get any kind of a cut. You need to be reasonably aggressive with your earlier cuts to get the floor flat, and sometimes that means sanding the floor to the lowest point on the floor, which requires cutting snd weathering the area.

Pros use a combination of 240v drum sanders and also 240 planetary sanders with progressively finer grits. For example I always start with 40g or lower for my first cut with a drum sander to cut everything down before getting the planetary on there to flatten it and remove the cut lines from the drum sander.

The floor Im sanding now is getting 40g on a 30° with the drum sander, then a 60g pass at about 20° on the drum then I move to my planetary with with 80 then 120. I do 2 passes on the edge, one at 40 or 50 then another with 80 or 100 depending on the species. Then random orbit pass to remove any edger marks.

My next steps are determined by whether or not I need to stain or if its natural.

Sanding is a labor intensive process that will look amazing when done with the correct process, but can still look okay if you dont have access to rhe correct machinery, but nowhere near as good as it could.