Hopefully this decision for a labor-intensive style of road is meant to take advantage of Michigan's unemployed citizens. I lived in southeast Michigan until 3 years ago and the nearby counties had plenty of dirt and gravel roads among the farms that had never been paved. They were just fine for driving on in the winter and summer.

I made a rule that I can never turn down a social activity for a game. It doesn't prevent me from getting stuck playing a game every possible moment for a few weeks, but it does force me to take some breaks and see there's other stuff going on.