Yes exactly. At my work when a new scientist joins us we just create an account and she can get started on her research within minutes. Each user gets a contained environment in which we mount a disk of shared data.
I'd wager that almost no data scientists write object oriented code.. it's probably mostly done one calculation at a time. executed in the notebooks repl. So the value you get from ide debuggers is tiny, as you're already doing everything one step at a time.
I ended up getting really frustrated with setting it up. Followed several different tutorials, had it blow up in a different way each time.
Going to have to revisit this to see if the documentation has gotten better.