From a policy perspective, what’s more important?

A) Letting people who for whatever reason didn’t get the vaccine have a drink at a terrace

or

B) Preventing people who are unvaccinated from either spreading or catching the virus when community spread is still very much a thing and hospitals are overwhelmed?

I was in the Netherlands for part of the lockdowns and I definitely recall the news of hospitals around the country being under a lot of strain. I think your situation in particular sucks and the lockdowns were pretty awful to go through, but I think just letting everyone raw dog it and then let the hospital system collapse would have been extremely irresponsible. And the gemeente would have caught hell for that too.