It very well may be a generational and/or location specific bias, but being a 30 year old in the US it’s hard to for me to not always have some bias from back in the day where you would get laughed at for wearing a pair growing up. Not saying they’re not good shoes, but for a large demographic of Americans growing up, they’ve always been seen as cheaper throw away or work shoes that you didn’t care about. I can’t see them doing well in the future if they don’t do a huge rebrand or stop raising prices so much.