Purity by means of rebirth

“There are some contemplatives & brahmans with this doctrine, this view:

‘Purity is by means of rebirth.’ But it’s not easy to find a rebirth that I haven’t been reborn in before, in this long, long journey, aside from the Pure-Abode devas. If I had been reborn among the Pure-Abode devas, I wouldn’t have come back to this world again.” -MN12

Seems like the Buddha is suggesting here that the pure land approach of aiming for a rebirth isn’t recommended. For me pure land texts are beautiful devotional texts. Aiming for a rebirth doesn’t make sense to me.