I was able to discover my problem.
Do not why I got the crazy idea, that when plugging the USB labeled port of ESP32-S3-DevKitC into the PC, I had to end up (after using Zadig) with two COM ports (one related to interface 0 and the other related to interface 2).
Always holding this as true, there was no way debugging would ever succeed.
Even got down the path of installing ESP-IDF as a plugin into VSC and later installing Espressif’s ESP-IDE with ESP-IDF with no success either. Maybe with time you can get accustomed to the complexity of configuration options (including voltages) that you have in Eclipse, not to mention OS environment variables that at least in my case never got initialized, but compared to platformio, it was a scary experience 
. Anyway going down that path I noticed that only Interface 0 had to be seen as a COM port, which made me decide to reattempt platformIO and everything worked.
Thanks https://community.platformio.org/u/maxgerhardt for your help attempt, because I am sure you got fed up with all the information I provided 
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This is my platformio.ini setting if anyone wants to look at it.
[env:esp32-s3-devkitc-1]
platform = espressif32
board = esp32-s3-devkitc-1
framework = arduino
monitor_speed = 115200
upload_port = COM34
monitor_port = COM34
build_flags =
-DARDUINO_USB_CDC_ON_BOOT=1
monitor_dtr = 1
monitor_rts = 1
lib_deps = adafruit/Adafruit [NeoPixel@^1.12.2](mailto:NeoPixel@%5e1.12.2)
I will open another topic to solve my doubds regarding FLASH size and PSRAM as this one is cluttered with useless posts (mine).
Regards