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We can come up with more elegant ways of expressing the sentiment, but that doesn't prove that the original utterance is somehow incorrect. FWIW "why won't she be honest" also implies some habituality which also includes the past, for me. A repeated refusal to be honest, despite several opportunities.
I'd actually be interested to see what other people think about the acceptability of the original. I suspect it's less wrong and jarring than you think, Oliver, which begs the question (steady!!!) - why should we care that this person "broke the rules" and used that construction?
It works fine at communicating the intended meaning.