Debugging is largely an effort to understand what's going on inside a program's execution. Having the problem talk back to the programmer via prints/logging is

Debugging is largely an effort to understand what's going on inside a program's execution. Having the problem talk back to the programmer via prints/logging is a perfectly sensible way to do this. I have successfully used prints to fix tricky issues, in my opinion it is pure snobbery to deride this approach.