Barefoot player characters

[Absurdity]

They very well can. Any debuff/buff that alters character size does exactly that.

I probably should've phrased it better. They can alter our height but that just scales up the skeleton like the height slider does, it doesn't alter where our character's root sits on the z-axis. If they could do it then we would have high-heeled shoes that dynamically affect where our feet are in relation to the ground...like wearing actual heels does.