Super lame. In the US, we use a German VPN so that we can get access to more German language content on both Amazon Prime and Netflix. It's the only way my half-German kids can stay fluent with their native tongue.
If there were a legal option to do so, I would do it. Why doesn't Netflix allow this? Come on!
This likely has more to do with contracts with the content owners rather than Netflix directly. Distribution deals as they are effectively resell the same product by carving up the world into markets.
As for Netflix own productions, many I imagine are created in partnership with other production studios who don't generate subscriber revenue from a streaming service but from those same multi-country distribution deals.
What also puzzles me is that the content is generally exclusive to Germany and watching it in the US wouldn't interfere with the American owner of the distribution rights since... there's none!
Why still block in country X when nobody owns the distribution rights in country X?
If there were a legal option to do so, I would do it. Why doesn't Netflix allow this? Come on!