Awesome, thank you Zach!

I'll give it a listen.

I ended up buying some barefoot shoes on Amazon.

They're not the barefoot of the extreme. They have wide toe boxes, are zero drop but usually with an insole and I added the 3/4 Dr. Scholl's arch support that's not too hard or rigid. So far it's working out.

And I got a pair of xero (They're definitely not all created equal.) which is working rn.