It's important to understand what the dutch dominated. They dominated long range trade of eastern products and the bulk trade of grain, fish, and timber in the baltic and north sea. The first of these was, in the grand scheme of things, not all that impressive economically. As with all pre-modern societies, trade in general was a very small share of economic activity, the vast majority of products were produced and consumed on a local scale at most. Long distance luxury trade was a small subset of that trade, employing at most a few dozen ships a year during the dutch golden age. Very profitable, very high profile,but a small share of economic activity.

the bulk trade was far more impressive economically, it required hundreds, sometimes even thousands of ships (small ships, but far more overall tonnage). that trade actually enabled the dutch to be one of, arguably the, first society that can really be called capitalist, the first one where large segments of the population began producing goods to sell on the market rather than for their own consumption. As impressive as this was, though, it was still a relatively small segment of the overall european economy. It was confined to the northern fringe of europe, and while it had effects elsewhere, in most of the rest of europe, people were still producing and consuming most of their goods locally.

The best single book on the subject is Benjamin Israel's Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall