[taeric]

I think you are talking past me? My point is the easy code is not where you would want to put breakpoints. It isn't a matter of the IDE, it is a matter of the likelihood that you want a breakpoint in a tight loop. And if you do, you will be working against optimizations and adding far more code to execute than a single condition.

Is like someone adding what feels like a single field to a query, not accounting for the effort that goes into a join.

Edit: I should add that "difficulty with step debugging" isn't just "won't work." I picture "having to press resume a few hundred times to get exactly where I want to be" as difficulty, there.