That really depends on the situation.

Some possible approaches:

• Have a look on mapillary, they are a streetview-platform where you can also upload pictures to. Sometimes they have up-to-date images
• Zebra crossings and cyclepaths don't change every year, so I guess it is not that bad? Unless you know major reconstructions have been done
• Go out and survey instead (also see the first bullet point)
• Ask other mappers in your city what they think.

I gotta work with 5-year old satellite images in Portugal x) but it's not too bad if you have a great knowledge of the city you're editing in. Surveying would be the best course of action

That doesn't sound too old to me! The satellite images in my area are from 2020. There have been some infrastructure changes since then, but in general construction takes a while so a few months shouldn't change much. If you're working in an area you know, as another commenter mentioned, you'll be fine working from this imagery.

Also, unless you know there is new imagery coming, I don't see any point in waiting because for all you know none will come for a year or more!