So you think the senior evil overlords at Google made a affirmative decision to deliberately sabotage OpenStreetMap to make it look bad in comparison to Google Maps. And that they instructed their agents to cover their tracks.
Seriously?
Seriously?
Planting an idea that OSM is not trustworthy i.e. diminishing it's perceived value by random sabotage is the best way to keep it from growing.
This isn't writing like 'dick dick dick' on Snooki's WikiPedia page. No one vandalizes OSM data for fun. They do it if they have an incentive to do so. This incentive must have been provided by Google management.
Stop defending what cannot be defended.
The only way to get to your "cannot be defended" conclusion is to start from a "I hate Google" position and color the evidence as you read it. So let me guess: you're an iOS nut, right? :)