[eadmund]

> storage is so cheap that being wasteful with it isn't really disincentivized

I think another way of phrasing that is usage is correctly incentivised. In the example you give, the value to debugging is more than the cost of storage — and even if that’s not the case it’s so low-priority that it might not even be on your list of priorities anymore!

That literally means that it’s worth your limited, valuable time to do something else.