Make some RouteRegistrar private methods and properties protected

[MtDalPizzol]

I have a scenario where I need to tweak the way RouteRegistrar.php adds routes to the router. I thought of doing this by extending the class and overriding the registerRoutes method, then binding my own RouteRegistrar to the container.

The problem is that the original RouteRegistrar has some private properties and methods that are unreachable by my custom extending class:

laravel-route-attributes/src/RouteRegistrar.php

Line 23 in afaaf31

private Router $router;

laravel-route-attributes/src/RouteRegistrar.php

Line 276 in afaaf31

private function addWithoutMiddlewareToRoute(ClassRouteAttributes $classRouteAttributes, Route $attributeClass, \Illuminate\Routing\Route $route): void

Is it really necessary to have this private? Couldn't they be protected instead, allowing us to more easily customize it?