It's not all that strange, a bomb that does not go off will bury itself deep in the terrain, you need to go looking for them somewhere between 8 and 12 meters deep!
The expectations are that for the areas in NL where there was a lot of bombing that it will take another 125 years before they'll be able to declare the job done.
Think about what this means for Ukraine where shells from both sides all land on Ukraine soil. The current front line is going to be a disaster area for decades.
It depends, shells won't go nearly as deep as a heavy aircraft bomb. And most of the Netherlands terrain is dry swamp. I don't think the same applies for other terrain types especially with a heavy rock layer.
So I don't think it'll be quite as bad. Mines on the other hand would be a worse problem there.
The fact that they don't go as deep makes it a different problem, not one that is less bad per-se. Aircraft bombs that sit 10 meters or more underground take an effort to reach, but that also means that they are relatively safe until you go looking for them. Unexploded artillery shells are shallow enough that regular work such as agriculture will turn them up and that means that lots of farmers will be at risk of their lives for a long time to come without an effort to clear their fields. Mines are extremely bad because they are usually hard to detect depending on what they are made of and can be set off by even the lightest vehicles (and even pedestrians).
The expectations are that for the areas in NL where there was a lot of bombing that it will take another 125 years before they'll be able to declare the job done.