They’ve used geotextile for decades in Europe. By using geo, you get an extremely long lasting surface due to the additional support. The gravel cannot sink into the subgrade.
They’ve used it for as long here, most contractors though seem to think they can process the subgrade to a suitable depth/moisture-density and work at that for a while before they finally listen to us and go grid or fabric in a change order... :-/
When I lived in Minnesota, we had a dirt road in front of our farm that was pretty swampy. The county came out to fix it, and when they dug a few feet, they found the road was comprised of buried logs. The farmers had laid hundreds of logs perpendicular across the road and then filled over with aggregate.
The logs were ancient, but perfectly preserved from the anaerobic environment. The county just replaced the aggregate and left it, otherwise it would have cost $$$ to stabilize the muck. Sometimes we over think and over engineer things...