For me the big thing is that there is now a _written record_ of what happened that I can now reference and think about for as long as I want while looking at th

For me the big thing is that there is now a _written record_ of what happened that I can now reference and think about for as long as I want while looking at the code that produces it, which can really help me figure out what exactly is happening. I have found debuggers to be completely useless for understanding how a series of steps has gone subtly wrong, but very useful for figuring out what the fuck is in some giant object I know nothing about.