Comment by m0zg

Could be because you've never used a good one. I could see how that distaste would form if all you've ever used was the likes of gdb, lldb, of (if you work in Python) pdb. But when I was switching away from Windows entirely 15 years ago, giving up windbg and Visual Studio debugger was HARD. It's so convenient when you can just _see_ what your program is doing without a lot of extra friction. The downside is, this very much disincentives the writing of tests, because you can get non-trivial pieces of code working without any tests. But with a little self-discipline, I think having a great debugger was a net positive for me, both code quality and productivity-wise.