I think you may not be familiar with how it works typically in the US. In the US residential streets are almost always 2 way stops. The streets on the narrow sides of the blocks only typically stop when two of these roads cross. Residential areas are laid out to minimize those crossings. Bigger streets than those are controlled by lights. Most people shouldn't come across more than two 4 way stops. Unless you are driving to another residential area. My case is an outlier in that I have to cross from into the older part of town that isn't on the typical NSEW grid. For my drive 1.5 mile drive, one way is four 4 way stops (42 intersections) and the other is two (21 intersections). I'm not sure your wave is necessarily better during the day you almost always have multiple cars at the intersection. I'm not sure if in your description if only one car would go at a time, but in a 4 way stop it pretty much syncs up so the majority of the time two cars are crossing at the same time. Not much of a burden.