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The problem with wet footing it, overlooking the obvious comfort factor, is that once your feet get wet and stay wet the skin gets soft. That leads to blisters.

I think this has way more to do with fit than anything else.

I wet foot many days a year wading for trout and smallies, in the same boots I use for wet-footed canoeing (the 1.0 version of the patagonia marlwalkers). I wear a single pair of coolmax or thermax socks.   Never had a blister.