I hate to say it, but I think you got off relatively easy. I'm always worried that ASIC will change the shoe 'last' on their Gel Kahana shoes, my current choice. I bought something like 10 pairs of one year's version, jumped ahead two years when those ran out and am coasting off of several pairs of those.

The last time I had to jump shoe models (and manufacturers) it was a great pain to find something that would work for certain. Local shoe stores don't offer enough selection, so I look very carefully at sites that show views from several perspectives of a shoe in question. Being able to look at the shoe from the bottom (sole) side helps a lot in eliminating those that either don't have a big enough toe box, or where the toe box is clearly not shaped closely enough to what my foot looks like.

The other two pieces to the puzzle are (a) an online retailer that will accept returns from shoes you've only tried on indoors, and (b) a lot of patience and some time to try out various options.