Without getting into the weeds, my point was that in order for owners to end up with cash in their pocket, the business has to earn a profit, at some point. And that profit must come from revenue (higher prices for customers) minus expenses (lower quantity/quality for customers).
You can insert a lender in there to shift when those cash flow changes happen, but the money must come from customers, eventually.
Barring any research and development that results in technology that will allow for lower expenses and/or increased production, but I do not think that is the case here.
Of course what happens is many business geared this was don’t make a profit, fail their banking covenants, interest on the bond rises and eventually they go bust leaving lenders out of pocket the fund in the money with the dividends
It’s happened to many PE owned businesses
Water company does a debt bond issue, parent owning fund takes a % of the issue (enough so that the bond issue is a success at a good price), parent fund extracts all the funds raised as a dividend, and sells the % of the issue it own too
All while extracting management fees etc too