[charcircuit]

Logging has the benefit of not stopping your programs. On what I work on stopping the program is not feasible. It will block all of the clients trying to communicate with it and if you pause for too long the clients will disconnect and this may make the problem hard to reproduce. Additionally it can be difficult to attach a debugger on a remote machine compared to deploying a simple update which mechanisms already exist for doing.

[mkdirp]

Logging is not debugging/print statements.

You also wouldn't generally be debugging a request from random clients. You'd generally be debugging in your local dev environment.