You really shouldn't have bothered vs. You really wouldn't have bothered

Hi,

[i]A dinner party

  • We’ve brought you some flowers and a bottle of wine.
  • How kind of you. You really shouldn’t have bothered.

Is it correct to say “You really wouldn’t have bothered.”?

Cheers

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Not in that context. ‘Wouldn’t’ can’t be used because they have already bothered, so the action was in the past.

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