What’s the source of this “should”, and why doesn’t it apply to the majority of businesses that finance the cash flow to sustain short-term operations?
Maybe because the virtual zero-interest rate policy from the Federal Reserve skewed the market in ways is "should" have not gone?
Would a business to this if they were paying more interest than the revenue generated from the time of the loan period? Or would they take a deep and hard look at their operations and decide that maybe the CEO doesn't get as big a bonus this year?
Sure, it makes sense to finance business expansion or whatever but if they are/were just floating some capital which has nothing to do with their core business of making widgets then this clearly falls into the "should" category.