I really liked the idea of "barefoot running" at the time, but it was always pretty clearly an extreme take. I do still think (with 0 evidence) that a lot of supported shoes are overly padded - that said, people run on a pretty wide variety of surfaces, it seems hard to argue that people evolved to run on concrete.

Nice bit of context for anyone interested but not wanting to read the whole book is Christopher McDougal's TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iGZPtWXzE