Not that I mind, but… wearing shoes has a purpose… and the most important one IMO is to make sure our feet stay harms way from broken bottles, nails, stuff like that.
I’m not even gonna get into how cold it must be not wearing them in the winter… or how hot the asfalt might get during the summer. The asfalt can go up to 80, 90°C where I live during the summer, people have fried eggs on it for kicks.
I took up running in cheap home made huaraches using some vibram cherry sole rubber bought from xeroshoes a long while ago. Tiugh material that has not degraded in the 15 years I’ve had them (though i no longer run daily, so who knows how long they’d really last).
It solves the hot asphalt issue, improves running posture (you can only run with a short gait, and only on the balls of your feet), and builds strong callouses on your feet. When i took up other sports where pivoting on your feet was a common occurence, I noticed my feet never developed blisters like the other players. I attributed this to this minimalist, nearly barefoot running (and jump rope).
Finding a safe area with little debris on the ground is a good idea when starting out. But after a few months I was bounding up trails with a wide variety of terrain and surfaces, adjusting my footing quickly because the feedback to the nerve endings in my feet was so much more immediate than with shoes.
Highly recommend trying it at least once.