Wow! I can certainly see why you'd have a poor opinion of shoes after that. Sometimes I feel lucky that I have such narrow feet so I never developed bunions or other issues from narrow toe boxes because to me those toe boxes were still plenty wide. A good friend of mine who's done some trail ultras is trying to get into sandal and unshod running but really self-conscious about his feet because they're wide and after 4 decades of pointy toe boxes he's got nasty, massive bunions on his big toe joints.