Sure, but they are classified in this way.
Let me put the problem a different way.
If you read these passages classified as “views of the past” and encounter speculations about the infinity of the cosmos, it is natural, I think, to wonder how “infinity” gets put under time. If you assume a Newtonian universe, where time and space are separate, then you’d assume the sutta was wrong, or at least, untidy. But if you assume the universe we actually live in, namely a relativistic one, that problem goes away.
See also: The relativistic physics of the gods