One doesn’t often reach for a tool that isn’t convenient to reach for, even though that tool may be the best available for the task at hand.

If you force yourself to use the debugger more, you will in the process both familiarise yourself with it and iron out any configuration kinks. Learn those keyboard shortcuts, figure out how to make it autoconnect and break on exceptions, find out how to evaluate expressions on the fly, …

You + That tool = maybe goodness. Maybe not.