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Hiya shoutgal, and welcome.
The OED has foresight in its sights from 1530:
Haue ther with Consyderacyon Be a forsyght and cleer inspeccyon.
It also charts foresightful from not much later, in Sidney’s Arcadia from 1580:
The foresightfull care he had of his silly successour.
Your question about it not getting much use is harder to answer: it is not marked as dead language, and they quote a New York source for a usage in 1889, so we can assume this authority still recognises it as valid currency.
Like eta said, it’s probably just the constraints of space required so Micro$loth can fit the code in for another animated paperclip or something *really useful of that kind…
fwiw, the similar usage 'insightful' would still be a commonplace.
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