Agree. And the tongue in cheek point with my sketch was that all that “originality” isn’t that original if it’s the same thing everyone is doing. Perhaps the first oversized midsole was original and different, but if everyone is literally using the same off the shelf Vibram unit, how’s that challenging design?
Being different isn’t different if everyone is being different in the same way. Being different just for the sake of being different isn’t design either.
In my eyes, there’s also a definite lack of aesthetic and shoemaking considerations in a lot of the product out recently.
R