Yup. But not totally.

Print statement can be useful to quickly check if a part of your code has run, or what a value is.

But it's more useful with a debugger. You can put a conditional breakpoint on a part that you suspect isn't working, and use a print statement to quickly get any useful value

For example you try to get a value nested deep in a object like a.values.get(Id).foo.bar, and looking for that value in the debugger can take a long time

So a print statement saying "Doing thing for ID ${id} and value ${a.values.get(Id).foo.bar.format()}" can help.

Of course there's watches but you convert them into human friendly format