No, Houston’s tollroads were partially an earlier experiment that didn’t work and partly the result of finding out they couldn’t expand the non-toll ring roads due to the nature of the ground they were built on. They had to make a separate ring road to add capacity and since they had no money in the budget to create it, it ended up a toll road.
As an out of towner, I found it incredibly annoying. I suppose if you live there you get used to it.