Stepping Into BFR

I hate running or I think I hate running, what I know is that I hate the pain of shin splints and for me running = shin splints... maybe. I've stumbled across barefoot running (BFR) and I don't even remember how I ran across it other than a life-long willingness to explore tangents, I used to reference this as 'procrastination'. I dug into BFR a bit and discovered different styles like pose, chi, and evo. In my twenties I would cut or mark the branding off of my clothes and seriously considered de-badging my car so, I don't really care to support any one flavor, but the general idea of using more of the foot and reducing the impact on shins, knee, hip and lower back by keeping my feet closer to my center of gravity, landing on the forward portion of my feet and increasing cadence sounded appealing and worth a try. However, there seems to be a lot of controversy between some runners and which is better for you, BFR or shoes. There's even a site dedicated to trying to debunk BFR, although I noticed it does a lot of trashing BFR and not much supporting shoes. I really don't give a flip, I just want to run with less pain, but then I have to balance this, hopefully, lower impact approach to landing on stones, glass, metal, pecans, hickory nuts, etc., but I prefer to exist with greater awareness anyway so maybe paying attention to what's ahead of or under me will be worth the gain, IDK, but I'm willing to give it a shot and I started training a week or so ago.