ESP32dev - PIO Unified Debugger - setup problem

[Stefan]

OK, so apparently THIS is the solution to my problem:

Adding
[env:debug]
infront of my debugging options in platformio.ini made it work now!

Thanks everyone!

For further reference I will document what I have / did here now:

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