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Because we all switched to clipless pedals the next year. I had several kinds of pedals with integrated clips in the early 80s, such as Shimano 600EX, Campag Triomphe and, best looking of them all, Ofmega Sintesi
but by 1985 Look had launched their click-in pedals and road racing cyclists took to them very quickly. The toe clip market was left to track and touring cyclists, who for their different reasons were not really in the market for pedals with integrated (and proprietory) clips.
The inside of your shoes should be foot shaped, pedals should be the same shape as the outside of your shoe to provide a rigid fixed connection, maybe with a little free movement precisely constrained to the vertical axis only.