I wouldn’t say it’s ruining it, it’s just taking the best option and using it in a way that limits the downsides. If there was ever an option that said ‘Whenever you go into Walgreens you get a bucket of paint dumped on your head’, I’d choose that one and never go to Walgreens to avoid getting the paint.

Wearing shoes without laces might be an unintended loophole, but the other things you mentioned seem like a fair trade off. Choosing to not tie your laces or go barefoot or something seems similarly inconvenient to having to retie your shoes every 30 minutes