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>spending hours chasing down obscure bugs with endless print_r's to follow state changes

It's not better chasing that using an interactive debugger with expression breakpoints? (pause execution when some variable/property changes?)

I've used interactive debuggers but didn't feel like they made debugging any easier. This article https://buttondown.email/geoffreylitt/archive/starting-this-... mirrors my feelings about debuggers.