Ok, I finally got a chance to feel these in hand and I actually tried them on when I went to Footlocker earlier today. They do run kind of big, but they didn't feel like boats when I tried them on. I would say you can do TTS for these, but that's me. I don't mind the bit of extra room in the toebox. As far at the leather goes, it feels just a bit softer than the laney V's (a shoe I thought had good quality), but nothing amazing tbh. They didn't feel any more comfortable than WC IV's when I tried them on, but I didn't really have them on for too long. I was more shocked they still had my size, 11.5, left in the store this late. It was the very last shoe they had in stock.