The traditional 讓 paired speech with a sound element meaning mutual accommodation; simplified 让 keeps the speech radical — yielding began as a verbal act, offering the better seat, the first serving, the right of way.
让 runs both directions: to politely yield (让座 giving up your seat) and to make someone do something (让我看看 'let me see'). 让一让! called out in a crowd means 'excuse me, coming through' — a whole traffic system in one syllable.
Speech 讠 that steps aside — LET, YIELD, ALLOW.
Kong Rong yielding the biggest pears to his elders at age four — 孔融让梨 — is the yielding story drilled into every Chinese childhood; 让 is taught before long division.