Maybe, but it's also the only method that works everywhere. I write very different things - python scripts, scripts for weird programs that use ancient or weird

Maybe, but it's also the only method that works everywhere. I write very different things - python scripts, scripts for weird programs that use ancient or weird languages, web applications, binary exploits, I do small patches to large projects - most recently a custom LLVM pass. With maybe exception of web dev, having a toollit for debugging every of that kinds of software would be hard to impossible to get.