Cities in Europe are much smaller and more compact than US cities. And while there's no stop sign, you still have to yield to traffic from your right if there's no sign whatsoever. And specifically, dutch cities tend to have winding narrow streets where you can't speed up too much.

Stop signs are put in places where I guess a yield sign proved to be dangerous to traffic?

True, but you're addressing some of the things I meant when I said US cities have very bad urban design.

The alternative isn't a yield sign, it's a redesigned intersection and likely a roundabout, or much smaller intersection, or similar.