I could, especially for cases like this one. The reason I hadn't is that sometimes work is done to produce the log output and it's faster to just do the if first... when you always call another function to do the test then the logging, you can end up doing the heavier work and then throwing it away. It seemed simpler to just always wrap in the `if()`. That said, there's only one case of the extra work which is the `_.pluck(` to produce a readable hints list to the debug log. We shouldn't run that when debugging is off.