This is really nothing new. If you take I-95 through about 15 miles of Delaware you get a toll near the border. If you must have tolls at all, it makes sense to charge the people using your roads who are probably not buying your gasoline.
If you overdo it, people will take side streets to avoid the toll. I grew up in Wallingford, CT, and we had a toll booth on the Merritt/Wilbercross parkway that we never paid. If we were going North, we got on at Yankee Silversmith, if South, the Masonic Home. I never went through that toll booth until I was in my 20s and was passing through.
“If you take I-95 through about 15 miles of Delaware you get a toll near the border.”
I never understood how Interstate 95, free for hundreds of miles, suddenly becomes the “New Jersey Turnpike” with a toll every mile and a half. I already feel like I know enough WRT the hyphenated woman running the show in Delaware.
Since it's $4 and there's usually a back up even with EZPass lanes, I cut around it on faster side streets to cross the MD/DE border.