This issue happens everywhere. Different infrastructure scope can be scheduled at different times depending on funding. Even if temporary resurfacing was inferior, it’s better than nothing. I bike a route in Chicago that had water mains replaced. They threw down unfinished concrete poured as continuous slabs. The logic was a year or two later, expansion joint cracks would naturally appear and concrete would be milled level with an asphalt topcoat. Project was delayed, then a quarry strike and the road has been a bumpy mess until the work gets done. Much would have preferred temporary asphalt, even with sinkhole depressions