Oh but only on fully built arm cores which support both thumb and the other mode!

That way all you instructions the debugger shows will be wrong as well since you will have swapped asm mode. (This should, however, fix some off by one jumps because the core should adjust the address. The nice change will continue wracking havoc so not much is lost…)

There are literally university courses which confidently state “Console logging is far more used and better so we won’t talk about a debugger here”!

Like sure, it’s very likely to be used far more, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t at least offer some courses or modules about proper use of a debugger…

Am I understanding that last part correctly?

[…] and actually zipping the file outside of the zipped directory helped a lot

Did they just automatically create a backup zip-bomb in their script‽