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As above. Just remember what brush is for what colour, and what purpose. You want to use soft brushes for high polish shoes to avoid scratches, but you need a relatively firm bristle on the brush that you use solely for scrubbing dirt off.
I have different brushes:
Cleaning - brush off dried mud/debris
Apply polish (often this is actually a fine cotton rack or kitchen paper)
BuffThose are all particular to the colour of the shoe - I don’t mix black and brown brushes. High polish dress shoes have a softer brush than brogued/durable shoes.
I do however use the same super large super soft brush for final buff polish, because it shouldn’t pick up any actual polish. If a brush is picking up polish then there is too much on the shoe, or you are brushing too hard.
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In other news I'm in the shoe equivalent of "fixie discoverery phase of 2007" I think. Got some shoe trees today, made of beech apparently. I'm sure that's frowned upon and should have been some other type of wood. Also bought a couple of brushes for polishing, waxing etc. which may or may not have been made from some sort of animal hair.