In Tombee portrait of a cotton planter( from the journal of Thomas B. Chaplin 1822-1890] In South Carolina the property owners were responsible for the roads, they rotated amongst themselves to level, fill and keep the roads. It has been years since I read it so the details are fuzzy.
I think that people doing their own roads will have uneven results as you travel. I don’t think that’s a positivity. I don’t think anybody wants to go from pavement to dirt to pavement to dirt to “Holy crap, this is road is cratery”.