Comment by SamPatt

Google updates Street View fairly frequently, but most of the updates are in developed nations and they're simply updating coverage with the same camera quality and don't change the meta.

However every once in a while you'll get huge updates - new countries getting coverage, or a country with older coverage getting new camera generation coverage, etc. And yes, the community watches for these updates and very quickly they try to figure out the implications. It's a huge deal when major coverage changes.

If you want an example of this, zi8gzag (one of the best known in the community) put out a video about a major Street View update not long ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLETln6ZatE

The community is very tuned into Google's street view plans - see Rainbolt's video talking to the Google street view team a few weeks back:

https://youtu.be/2T6pIJWKMcg?si=FUKuGkexnaCt7s_b