The linked comment section is absolutely incredible, jam-packed with people who insist that it's no big deal to have to constantly debug broken debugging tools. 
The original article's author patiently documents tons of problems, concluding that literally no tool actually workshttps://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1338234946138361863 …
I don’t recall which version of Visual studio it was, but one version I recall would sometimes crash when setting hardware breakpoints. I can remember getting a rare setup for a bug then just praying it wouldn’t crash when I set those.