Replicate Gate inspect() functionality within Policies

[Offlein]

As a developer learning Laravel, possibly the most confusing aspects of the process so far has been Policy vs Gate handling.

Policies seem to be advertised as a system for managing authorization in a more complex way than Gates -- especially with relation to a User model's abilities with regard to another model.

However, it seems like Policies actually use Gates under the hood in a way that was very confusing for me while trying to read Auth Response objects (as per Gate::inspect() calls).

I may be fundamentally misunderstanding Laravel's logic here, but it seems to me that the Framework would greatly benefit from modifying the Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\Authorizable trait (and Interface), adding a new method after (beyond can(), canAny(), cant(), and cannot()) along the lines of, say, authorize(...).

I would be very willing to submit a PR for this if it would be accepted. Something along the lines of:

/**
 * @param string $ability
 * @param string|Model $classOrModel
 * @param mixed ...$params
 * @return Response
 */
public function authorize(string $ability, string|Model $classOrModel, mixed ...$params)
{
    $args = array_merge([$classOrModel], $params);
    return Gate::forUser($this)
        ->inspect($ability, $args);
}

That can be called like $check = $user->authorize('create', SomeClass::class, $additionalArgument);.

I would also gladly update the documentation during this.

Is this something that would help the Laravel community?