Hiking boots are inherently a high wear item, you will likely not own a pair for life. There are some brands like danner and other more expensive brands that if you are really attached you can send your boot in and they will replace the worn out parts with new ones so you can keep some of your original boot. This often isn’t cost effective though, for instance I wanted to get my danner boots from the military resoled and shanked, and after shipping it was only going to be $10 less than buying a new pair of boots. So it didn’t really make much since unless I really cared about the nostalgia.

If you have narrow feet La Sportiva boots are pretty good, they tend to use vibram soles and gortex waterproofing. They don’t fit me well though. Another brand that’s still somewhat affordable but makes great boots is Oboz. If you happen to be a woman, then Ahnu makes really cool boots but they don’t make any men’s boots.