Sometimes, that's right, because a lot of tech changes so quickly that a three year old article about is now hopelessly out of date since v5 deprecated v3 syntax.
For a lot of other articles, I'd rather read an authoritative, well-written article that was published 40 years ago. Nothing material has changed in the intervening period, so it doesn't matter.
Google just doesn't seem to know when I value quality over freshness, so it defaults to the latter most of the time.
I do wish there was more of a focus on attribution and citing sources on the web. Maybe Web3 will save us on that front...
All good questions, but shame that google answer to that is "surely a Wordpress blog called 2022-glue-boss.com made in the last year has all those answers!"