Wow Jake, in my 6 yrs of idiopathic PN and 3 Primary Neurologists between relocating and finding best fit, nobody ever mentioned a stage! Perhaps my stage is idiopathic too. When I was a runner, New Balance was my shoe - now that I’m just happy to be able to walk around, Skechers has been my comfort shoe. If you’re like me, we probably don’t like confusing our feet too much by changing shoes especially how we are coping with the importance of safest driving given our lack of sensation in our feet; but you have me thinking about exploring New Balance again given how it proved, after many many miles of testing other shoes, that it conformed best to my foot in my active days.