why do they all have to be so ugly

I am 100% onboard with barefoot shoes and have been wearing them exclusively for the last two years but I swear all these brands are designed by the kind of person who lives in Berkeley and only buys vegetables at the local co-op and asks for the chicken's name at the local farm to table spot.

If you look at the shoes they make you would think none of these people have ever heard of a Jordan 1, or a New Balance 574, or the Paraboot Michael, or a Tricker's derby.

And to top it all off, they have the gall to charge $200+ for sloppy stitching done by some Portuguese workshop on mediocre leathers. Where is the Adidas Samba of the barefoot world? The Chuck Taylor? The Bean Boot? The Air Force One? The Blundstone? The Alden Indy is the most barefoot toe adjacent boot shape that has ever put into production on a conventional goodyear welted last and yet not one barefoot shoe company has thought to drop an homage model.

I'm hoping someone will drop a link proving me wrong, but please know that I have bought or tried on 20+ pairs in the last two years. They're either not wide enough in the toe box, or ugly and poorly executed dupes.