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Absolutely.

When people say they use 'print statements,' are they talking about log points (a debugger construct), logging or something else?

I should hope that, in most cases, they're not literally modifying their source code to achieve this. While there are a handful of scenarios in which this is necessary, on the whole it strikes me as inefficient, time-consuming and error-prone. In most environments, there are better ways to make this data observable.