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If you are working on support/maintenance roles (in engineering) at big enterprise product company then debugging is major part of your job. I enjoy debugging as it is another way to solve problem. But for some people it gets repetitive (and boring) since you have to do that day in day out as a part of support roles.

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Another part of what makes debugging painful for a lot of people working in big enterprise ("small cog in a big machine") stems from bad management.

Bad management -> bad design decision and poor resource allocation -> blame those lower on the org chart than you -> pressure to "just get this fixed and out the door" -> high levels of technical debt and programmer "burn-out"

The guys in the trenches debugging are going to end up having a better overall understanding of the system. Not to mention they're going to be really good at debugging; if they decide to get into a more development-oriented role, that skillset is going to be a huge productivity booster.

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