Buddha's knowledge about the future?

Does anyone know why the Buddha didn’t state about the “knowledge about the future” directly, as did about the past?

DN29 Pāsādikasutta
It’s possible that wanderers who follow other paths might say, ‘The ascetic Gotama demonstrates boundless knowledge and vision of the past, but not of the future. What’s up with that?’ Those wanderers, like incompetent fools, seem to imagine that one kind of knowledge and vision can be demonstrated by means of another kind of knowledge and vision.

Regarding the past, the Realized One has knowledge stemming from memory. He recollects as far as he wants.

Regarding the future, the Realized One has the knowledge born of awakening: ‘This is my last rebirth. Now there are no more future lives.’

If a question about the past is untrue, false, and pointless, the Realized One does not reply. If a question about the past is true and substantive, but pointless, he does not reply. If a question about the past is true, substantive, and beneficial, he knows the right time to reply. And the Realized One replies to questions about the future or the present in the same way.

I didn’t read DN 29 carefully but it seems to say:

If a question about the past is true, substantive, and beneficial, he knows the right time to reply.

And the Realized One replies to questions about the future or the present in the same way.

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Can you rephrase the question @Queen ? Both the above statements are direct.

In one the Buddha says they know past lives, in the other the Buddha says they know there wont be any more.

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