I talk about shoes and socks too much

I was at Dirt Rag Dirt Fap Fest talking to HandUp Troy when Shimano Foye walked up to talk to him.  Whilst I was in the presence of the Big Blue Ambassador, I asked him about the S-Phyre shoe and it's hike-a-bike-ability.  It hits Shimano's stiffness scale at an 11... which is only one stiffness less than their stiffest road shoe. So perhaps a dumb question was uttered in regards to how walkable