I agree with that. When working on crappy code that is under the control of other teams (or worse, nobody), I find myself having to use the debugger quite ofte

I agree with that. When working on crappy code that is under the control of other teams (or worse, nobody), I find myself having to use the debugger quite often. On crappy code that's under full ownership of me or my team, we can (and do) clean up the code and leave the debugger on the shelf.