Under Per Player settings, you can define the tile that becomes paved on claiming.

Currently these are all variations of stone path and concrete. I like to play with Stable Foundations as a general QOL mod, which has the ability to increase productivity and defense on entities that are constructed on certain materials (stone, concrete, refined) as well as walk speed; but these paving options basically jump it into the best tier automatically.

Being able to set the paved tile to something else like dirt/desert/grass, vs marsh (walkable but not buildable), vs landfill would allow better compatibility and more interesting interactions.

I know that some trades take refined concrete as an input, but I don't like mining the provided tiles.

Since it's a mod setting, there is no way to automatically detect what tiles other mods add to the game. This can still be achieved by either:
- adding support for mods directly, hardcoding what they add to the game (not a good idea, hard to maintain, etc),
- making a custom mod setting UI in-game just for this pavement setting (an even worse idea, but some mods do it for maximum control),
- or having a separate compatibility mod alter Hextorio's settings to include additional tile types (not a terrible idea, see settings-updates.lua at https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Mod_settings).

Will I do either of these? Most likely not. I'd leave this to someone else to create a compatibility mod that puts modded tile types into Hextorio's tile type dropdown settings. Then, maintaining compatibility between Hextorio and other tile-adding mods just means maintaining the compatibility mod itself instead of Hextorio or the other tile-adding mods.

Honestly, ChatGPT could create that mod in seconds. Just feed it this whole message.