How to sort out bent toes?

You have a longer second toe, which is what they call Hammer Toe, or Morton's Foot, etc.

You have what is known as the Greek Toe. Because the man who served as the model for Michelangelo's statue of David had it.

Your foot is designed wrong, not your fault. The big toe is supposed to be the one to push off when you walk. And if the second toe has to do its job for the big toe as well, it can indeed feel different. Including more sensitive. And other toes have to take up the slack, especially if you rotate your foot to put the load away from your second toe. Just look at the wear pattern on the bottom of a pair of your old shoes.

When a person has a longer second toe, they will usually walk differently, one of the ways is to rotate the foot to put the load elsewhere. Also, you might walk with a more stiff-legged gait, and you might have some low back pain because of that extra stuff that your hip is having to do. And foot pain can be caused by the muscles of the lower leg being tight.Also, the foot widens to spread the load.

But there's a trick, if you need it, for when the foot starts giving problems. But right now, you are just being annoyed by how your toes are arranged. And the one under the other is to help, it's going to stay that way. Unless you have the last joint of your second toe removed. It is actually a fairly common elective surgery.

Cut a couple of circles the size of a quarter out of the sole of a tennis shoe. Glue them to a plain Dr Scholl's shoe insert with Gorilla Glue. At exactly the spot under the ball of the foot. That forces the weight to be carried on the big toe longer. This suggestion comes from Bonnie Pruden's book "Pain Erasure", available as a free e-book, or through Amazon, etc.