That was a very length editorial piece, you should go into writing as a career. Seriously thought, needed to be said, you are right the quality of shoes have plummeted.

My mom and I don't even know where to buy shoes anymore, we have high arches, I don't think no one even knows what that means anymore, much less what is leather, good leather???

However, things are starting to become more and more produced in Vietnam, South Korea, many other countries, we don't need China anymore, things have shifted, now they just need to figure out how to make a damn shoe, not that hard.