Yes, this sort of consistency is very valuable. It's far too common that the interface an IDE gives you for something like adding a watchpoint is "type an expr

Yes, this sort of consistency is very valuable. It's far too common that the interface an IDE gives you for something like adding a watchpoint is "type an expression into this small area in a dialog box, using a restricted subset of my text-editing features". I sometimes think the main attraction of print-style debugging is that it doesn't do that to you.