The tools for Java are much better than those for C++. However, claiming the code is the problem is silly. I'm not going to introduce a bunch of local variables

The tools for Java are much better than those for C++. However, claiming the code is the problem is silly. I'm not going to introduce a bunch of local variables just to appease a debugger. If splitting on separate lines makes code more readable, then sure, do that. But often it just makes the code longer and harder to follow.