If your parent doing the school run a suv does make sense, and don't for get that pickups are used a lot by farmers and I suspect the Dutch farming lobby is just as powerfull as it is in the other eu states and the USA.
No, the Dutch solution to the school run is a Bakfiets cargo bicycle until the kids are old enough to ride their own.
Dutch farming is very .. intense? Quite a lot of it is done in greenhouses. Sure, if you're in agriculture you can justify a larger vehicle. That's at most 5% of the population?
In the 1990s every 5 person family managed fine with a normal car.
I doubt many of us would mind quite so much the tiny few SUVs actually used by workers and farmers because they absolutely need such a beast. Mind, saying that my friend with the absurdly big crew cab Toyota pickup, uses the wife's regular size car when it's just them and the kids... The pickup is for transporting 1 tonne of kit around fields -- he actually detests them to drive. :)
Just in case you don't know of the crocodile/walking bus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_bus
And just because its how your town does it in your country doesn't automatically make it the one best way for every one.
Edit: I wonder if this is because of how much of Scotland is used for grouse shooting - a pickup isn't going to be much good for transporting your pampered customers!
In the Netherlands, the bicycle is quite certainly one of the most practical options in practically every town.
People completely lost touch with reality.
And there is the psychological safety aspect of a big SUV with a higher driving position.
I'd expect intensive farmers use exclusively on specialized equipment.
e.g. Higher population density, greater proportion of SUVs.