MSVC lacks -Og because it instead treats inlining, optimization, and inclusion of debug information as separate, orthogonal choices.

These days I rarely build a whole MSVC project as "Debug" without optimization. Instead I enable both optimization and debug information, so I always get call stacks and line-by-line stepping ability. When I end up debugging some file where the optimizations inhibit debuggability, I'll recompile just that compilation unit or library without optimization or inlining.

That said, I agree with the gist of the article that both "zero cost abstraction" and debuggability need to be constantly improved.