This happens after [dracut commit 5042681 ("fix(dracut.sh): initialize variables that get exported")](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/commit/504268187b863d11a8c39e0a242aa77e688c8b0d) which initializes `debug=0`. We can also see "debug=1 dracut -f" doesn't enable xtrace either.