One minor benefit of using a "real debugger" is that it makes it easier to stumble across situations or flows that you didn't expect just from a direct-reading of the code.
Granted, often those moments are cases where the code is working correctly but you misunderstood or misremembered things, but the fact that you identified (and resolved) the disconnect is valuable, particularly if you're doing a deep-dive to figure out a nearby problem.
Granted, often those moments are cases where the code is working correctly but you misunderstood or misremembered things, but the fact that you identified (and resolved) the disconnect is valuable, particularly if you're doing a deep-dive to figure out a nearby problem.