It depends on what you're doing. I find console statements helpful when testing out a new function that you don't necessarily expect to misbehave so I check the internal state is correct without having to stop the code.

Debuggers provide much more information, but stopping and stepping through the code is much more time intensive than printing out variables at various points and running the function and doing a quick double check that they're correct.

It also allows you to check the state of the program earlier for problems that may only emerge after the fact. Instead of having to stop what I'm doing and retry and step through with the debugger, I can just look back at the log and see what went wrong where.

I think both debug logs and debuggers have valuable use cases.