With VSCode it's often a 10 minute job to set up. We are spoiled! Back in the VS days using a Microsoft stack it was just there. Click to add breakpoint then F5.

when i first started programming, with php, it took me literally weeks to figure out how to get xdebug set up. (pro tip: just use DDEV - it makes it all simple).

Not a second of that was a waste because xdebug (like all debuggers) is just that amazing.