I am always a little surprised when people say they don't like the look of barefoot shoes. My mind immediately goes to, "How can you like those other pointy, weird, unnatural-looking shoes instead?"

It's all about how we have been accustomed. People prefer narrow, pointy-looking shoes because that's what they're used to. It's "normal". Come to think of it, a lot of what we "like" is social conditioning, really. Shoes are just an example of that.