> If you want the comfort of soft materials then you won't get the longevity of hard materials. You can only really trade one for the other.

Well... There's Crown Northampton. Any of their sneakers will be durable and long lasting and can even be resoled by them. Calf leather is strong and soft. Their cheapest sneakers are absurdly expensive but if you really stretch out to shell cordovan sneakers... Those are so perfect many people would assume they use fake leather. That stuff is soft but crazy durable, it does not even crease. Hpwever, just in materials without the work those sneakers are probably 400-500€, shell cordovan is crazy expensive and even the lining leathers for those are crazy high quality and expensive.