"the boots will keep your feet more comfortable and resist fatigue due to the support"
Shoes are not supposed to provide support. Your foot/ankle muscles (yes, including your arch) are supposed to be developed to the point that they can handle your body's load.
How the notion that our feet/legs are somehow defective, and need support/other aids/tools, is a question for the advertisers & marketing men who popularized these concepts back in the day.
Your feet & legs are NOT defective. They are the result of 2 million years of evolution on the African plains. That we choose to wrap them up and let them atrophy is a mystery.
Really? Got news for you, buddy: If I were there in the "old country" loping along in the plains, I would not be able to walk without a serious limp, because believe it or not, some people -- lots of people -- ARE born with defects that without boots, orthotics, et al (one of my legs is one inch longer than the other, and I have nearly no arch development at all,
medically documented.)
Your attempts at, um, neutrality, have fallen solidly flat.
There aint nothing sissy about wearing whatever it takes to get you from here to there.
