VS Code, Hello World -- F5 shows nothing in console?

I have a simple hello world program:

let message: string = 'Hello World';
console.log(message);

let message: string = 'Hello World';
console.log(message);

When I hit F5 though, I don't see any output in the debug console, unless I set

"outputCapture: "std"

"outputCapture: "std"

in my

launch.json

launch.json

but this seems to be counter to the behaviour I would expect? I would expect the debug console to show the output, since it is the debug console?