Debugging through log data still has a place, of course. However, trying to do all of your debugging through println is so much harder, even though it feels easier than learning to use a debugger.
I reach for a “real” debugger when necessary, but that’s less than 5% of the time.
E.g. I keep wondering whether the split between people who can't live without debuggers vs people who rarely use debuggers is actually people who use IDEs versus people who don't.
But I find that if I have to step around more than a handful of times to find the issue then I forget what happened five steps ago. So I teach for print debugging quite often.
Ultimately, if you have a good logging setup and kinda know where the issue is a quick log message could be faster than debugging if all you want to do is look a variable value.
I frequently find myself debugging large unfamiliar code bases, and typically it’s much easier to stick a breakpoint in and start following where it goes rather than blindly start instrumenting with print statements and hoping that you picked the right code path.