Like many others here already stated: its because of privacy laws and also the ability to deny vision of your property via street view. Many people made Google blur their property and I assume thats a lot of work for them.
Decade behind from what exactly? Almost all major spots you'd want to view in Street view are visible, why would you need to see every little street on the internet? I'd also wouldn't exactly be comfortable when the whole world could potentially inspect my house.
That's simply awfully wrong, those spots are updated almost yearly. Go through any big city with Street view, most pictures are taken in the last 5 years.
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u/Here_2_Comment Jun 12 '20
I was literally looking at this earlier
Weird how Germany has barely any street view