Modern development in a nutshell.
You want to use something full of abstractions to the point you have no idea how it actually worked.
You did this to save time.
Then when issues occur it's someone else's fault.
That said, let me pass in a flag to get my dev logs in prod. That's ultimately what the author wants.
reminds me of this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 :)