The Buddha also said that there’s higher pleasures that are sublime and subtle.
Do you agree that there’s different levels of pleasure? And one who knows better quality pleasures usually does not go back to lower quality pleasures. In other words, the only reason you like lower quality pleasures is because you don’t know better.
The root cause of your pleasure hunting is dukkha and misery, when those are removed, all that remains is sublime pleasure.
Sensual pleasures give little gratification and much suffering and distress, and they are all the more full of drawbacks.
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Reverend Gotama, pleasure is not gained through pleasure; pleasure is gained through pain. For if pleasure were to be gained through pleasure, King Seniya Bimbisāra of Māgadha would gain pleasure, since he lives in greater pleasure than Venerable Gotama.’
‘Clearly the venerables have spoken rashly, without reflection. Rather, I’m the one who should be asked about who lives in greater pleasure, King Bimbisāra or Venerable Gotama?’
‘Clearly we spoke rashly and without reflection. But forget about that. Now we ask Venerable Gotama: “Who lives in greater pleasure, King Bimbisāra or Venerable Gotama?”’
‘Well then, reverends, I’ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like. What do you think, reverends? Is King Bimbisāra capable of experiencing perfect happiness for seven days and nights without moving his body or speaking?’
‘No he is not, reverend.’
‘What do you think, reverends? Is King Bimbisāra capable of experiencing perfect happiness for six days … five days … four days … three days … two days … one day?’
‘No he is not, reverend.’
‘But I am capable of experiencing perfect happiness for one day and night without moving my body or speaking. I am capable of experiencing perfect happiness for two days … three days … four days … five days … six days … seven days. What do you think, reverends? This being so, who lives in greater pleasure, King Bimbisāra or I?’
‘This being so, Venerable Gotama lives in greater pleasure than King Bimbisāra.’”
It’s because Buddhism deals with what is knowable, and what is knowable is known through experience, thus it is a phenomological ideology. It doesn’t matter how hard or much you speculate about what happens after death, you’ll never truly know. To know something is to experience it directly, and you can’t experience death directly and come back to talk about it, as far as I know.