Actually there is a dependency where the aerial images determine what runways are available/oriented. Even if the airport might have had construction/physical changes and the AIRAC might finally reflect that (not necessarily - even country updates to AIRAC can be slow depending upon the nation-state’s agency), the images are paramount. So if an airfield has had a new runway built for SE-NW and closed an older E-W runway; if the Bing Images still show the only E-W runway, that’s what’s going to be available in the sim. It makes sense because the images derive what happens visually. Correcting those by hand in the hundreds isn’t efficient. That’s from one of the first-party devs by the way, in the course of casual conversations.
But to the actual topic of open and closed - it’s worth double-checking the actual AIRAC to again see if the nation’s reporting agencies filed their updates timely. In some places, it doesn’t, on the order of several months to years. That’s the problem with a clearing house approach - there’s no enforcement of timeliness to updates/SLAs for participant countries/agencies.