Not to mention that I have seen death matches on this topic in most companies I've worked in. It is not a topic where everybody agrees ;-) It is a situational

Not to mention that I have seen death matches on this topic in most companies I've worked in. It is not a topic where everybody agrees ;-) It is a situational thing. To rebound the inappropriate junior dev comment, I have found that more senior developers can often get away with a lot less logging because the behaviour of the application is more apparent from the outside. I think your logging system has to be flexible enough to handle both philosophies because expecting someone to be able to write systems with minimal logging when they don't know how to do it is unreasonable.