I suspect we agree on this, and the difference in in the perspective:

Yes. I think we do.

I usually have those as simple console printing, and then outright delete them when I'm done the first draft of the code and have settled on data structures and variable names. A small few may stick around to serve as progress bars, but those strings end in \r instead of \n so they aren't spammy.

I also tend to delete debug trace when I'm done with it. (And have been known to leave a few sitting around as a "somethings happening" indicator.)