Considering how often these files are run that would make for quite a noisy logfile.
Shhh! Don't make administrators' jobs easier! How else will we justify our insane salary and benefits?
Look at the bright side: this is a few days of debugging and difficult to explain to the people signing your check. Aren't you glad it's there now?
A few days debugging? How could this possibly take any more than 5 minutes to work out on your own? If it takes a few days then maybe you are in the wrong job.
I think "a few days" was an intentional exaggeration.