Shoutout to Carlos S Yosi ( / @carlosyjosi9710 ) for finding the solution!
This is a follow-up to my video on debugging PHP using Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and Xdebug: • Debug PHP with VS Code and Windows Su...
In version 1.52, VS Code made a change that requires the debug.allowBreakpointsEverywhere setting to be checked in order to debug PHP. Not sure why this is, but check out the video for the behavior before and after and a quick look at how to enable this setting.