I just like to mention my experience because it is so easy to take the piss on folk that wear Five Fingers, but they can be legitimately great.

They still look hideous and there is a place for form over function in our society, so in some measure, the piss is worth taking against Five Fingers. I’ll agree with you though that Five Fingers helped me identify what I needed different in footwear even though I only used them for a couple of months to find a better alternative.