[ehnto]

I wrote without a debugger for most of the start of my career, but problem solving is about having the right information on hand, and for me a debugger lets me gather that information quicker, and it also lets me iterate faster.

There's another great benefit to a debugger, and that is troubleshooting long-running code or hard to prime iterations. Like for example, debugging a checkout flow can be very cumbersome as you have to prime the state for every test. There are plenty of workarounds if you have to log your way through it, but wouldn't it just be easier to use a tool designed for the job?