If anything the effectiveness/necessity of manually adding print statements to get any feedback about what the program you're working on is doing makes me look

If anything the effectiveness/necessity of manually adding print statements to get any feedback about what the program you're working on is doing makes me look down on software development in general. We are working on a system that could have nearly total visibility, down to showing us a simulation of individual electrons moving through wires, yet we're programming basically blind. The default is I write code and run it, without any visual/intuitive feedback about what its doing besides the result. So much of my visual system goes completely unused. Also debuggers can be a pain to set up, way more reading and typing than "print()"