I'm not very knowledgeable about hiking or outdoor gear, but I think the Dime x Merrells are cool. I don't really know what makes a good hiking shoe versus a bad one, and it probably doesn't matter to me because I don't go hiking in any serious way. I'm not going to buy them, but I feel like the point of the collab was to get someone like me to buy them, not someone who goes on the hiking equivalent of Slap. I think they're trying to sell Merrell to a Dime customer, not Dime to a Merrell customer.