because debt, in the broader sense (financially), is related to economic success. a basic finance course will tell you that there is an optimal level of (financial) debt for a firm.

this should actually be more intuitive outside of finance such as in a technical or organizational setting. for example, the instant a software engineers detects that they have information which suggests they re-architect their software, should they? of course not, because likely even more information will then being to surface which could completely change their architectural strategy.