I think you have missed an essential point here: we are paying this debt because it is being inflated away. It is a ponzi scheme that keeps getting bigger and bigger. That's why everything is more expensive, houses, food, everything. Then they tell you that there has been a 2% increase in the CPI and it doesn't add up with what you see in the supermarket. That is why, among other things, bitcoin was born, and saving in it is the best way to protect oneself against the generalised loss of purchasing power that this flight forward represents.
That is true, it's sort of like a ponzi scheme, but a better calculation would be saying it's a pyramid scheme, because the ones at the top earns, while we all lose. They are printing money like crazy and that's not an easy way out, it's the most important situation.
We have to approach this as a way of seeing this a lot better. Where we are seeing this as printing money as a way to float the inflation but there aren't really changing it any greater for the long term. This just has to be the most obvious thing to realize, printing money has to be limited, I understand zero printing may make things hard, but printing THIS much is the hardest thing. There is nothing we can see as a benefit to having this much more money every year.