I'm surprised to read more people arguing, "print statements and/or understanding the code I'm working on is more valuable than a debugger" rather than straight

I'm surprised to read more people arguing, "print statements and/or understanding the code I'm working on is more valuable than a debugger" rather than straightforward, "my platform/language/environment doesn't have a good debugger--print statements are simply easier." pdb is pretty good but wedging it into my FastCGI processes running as another user is a PITA (albeit one I could fix just once). Clojure has CDT but that's even kind of PITA-y since I have to go start up another JVM and get them to talk to each other. It's much easier just to type "print x, y, z" and reload my code. If I was in VS.Net or Eclipse and not Emacs all day, and/or if I was writing something more "straightforward" like a desktop application, I bet I'd be much more inclined to use a debugger. (Edit for word choice.)