George, you are being argumentative and somewhat ridiculous with your insistence that Manfred is at fault for his response.
I am not a regular street photographer though I am always on the lookout for interesting captures.
Your own image is obviously cropped, ie not SOOC, so you have chosen to present it in a specific manner and additionally chosen to title it 'Shoes'.
Given the title indicates what drew your attention to the capture in the first instance, Manfred's suggestion of a tighter crop to emphasise this makes perfect sense.
And it is also the way
he would have chosen to present the image (possibly).
I took the following 'street shot' some years ago when I was with my wife on a retail therapy expedition, (hers), to a nearby town.
If I had posted it 'as is' I would not have been too surprised if Manfred, or you, or any other forum contributor suggested recropping to emphasise the key element that caught my attention... 'The Morris Dancers', and it would not be particularly surprising if you 'focused' on the group dancing off centre right.
Which is precisely what I actually did....
I cannot quite comprehend, why you are so unwilling to accept that someone else might see and 'present' your image in a different way from you....
It is what makes photography both personal and on occasion exciting, for me anyway, when I see how someone else demonstrates to me how they 'see' something differently from me.
Why else would I post in the first place?