Printing debug output to console in Codeception

See Debugging which says

You may print any information inside a test using the codecept_debug function.

And I'm using it in my *Cept class:

codecept_debug($myVar);

Your debug output is only visible when you run with --debug (-v doesn't show it, but -vv and -vvv do):

codecept run --debug

And the output looked like:

Validate MyEntity table insert (MyCept) Scenario:* I persist entity "AppBundle\Entity\MyEntity"  AppBundle\Entity\MyEntity Object  (      [Id:AppBundle\Entity\MyEntity:private] => 1      [Description:AppBundle\Entity\MyEntity:private] => Description  ) PASSED 

\Codeception\Util\Debug::debug($this->em);die();

and run Codeception with --debug flag.

I seem to have found a way around the issue by using a helper class:

class WebHelper extends \Codeception\Module{    public function seeMyVar($var){        $this->debug($var);    }}

and calling the class as such:

$foo = array('one','two');$I->seeMyVar($foo);

then I get the debug output I'm looking for

I see my var "lambda function"  Array  (      [0] => one      [1] => two  )

I will accept this as a temporary solution however I would like to keep my assertions clean and not clutter them with var_dumps upgraded to test functions, so if anyone has a conceptually correct solution, please submit