the Sea Kayaker magazine (October) that just arrived has a review of a Greenland Style kayak. Reviewer complained about foot room.

The response from the manufacturer:
"We have noted the issue concerning legroom, but we must keep in mind the original design and esthetic feature of the Greenland-style kayaks."

That's rationalizing. They made a Greenland boat out of modern materials, rubber hatch covers, fiberglass keyhole coaming, gelcoat, but they can't make it fit better for larger modern kabloona feet?
'You wear a kayak." Well, I wear size 8-1/2 to 9 shoes (not at all big), I want socks, booties, foot pegs and a kayak that fit my feet. I don't buy shoes that don't fit because the one's in the museum are tiny. Guys with bigger feet, need more room. Nanook was shorter than almost all of us (and even his 'yak fit his feet, two wives, a kid, a baby and a dog).

26 degrees (or 64 degrees) is what I've found to be my natural foot angle seated in my 'yak and that's how I'm making the new one. I make sure there's room for my feet at 90 degrees, or however I want'em and I try to anticipate fitting in my 6'2" son. (My feet are on the small size, but I've got a plastic beater-yak out in the rack that's too small even for my feet. If Shaq bumps his head in a house, well he's tall, but if I walk into a house and bump the door jamb, something's definitely wrong.)

If experienced paddlers in Sea Kayaking are saying it's a problem, it's a problem, and it's been a perennial problem.
When I get around to making an SOF, it'll have solidly connected foot braces, and room enough to fit my feet.

OK Rant over.