Behavior of Excluded Url from DownCommand

[Simon-BEE]

Hey

I've encountered what seems to be unexpected behavior regarding the preventRequestsDuringMaintenance middleware.
In my bootstrap/app.php file, I've configured it as follows to define URLs that should always be accessible during maintenance:

$middleware->preventRequestsDuringMaintenance([
    'url-always-available',
]);

However, it appears that the DownCommand doesn't honor the paths defined this way. Instead of using the configuration provided in bootstrap/app.php for the core Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance class, Laravel seems to attempt to resolve and use an App\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance class, even if this class doesn't exist in the application.

To get the desired behavior, I had to create the following child class:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance as BasePreventRequestDuringMaintenance;

class PreventRequestsDuringMaintenance extends BasePreventRequestDuringMaintenance
{
    public function getExcludedPaths()
    {
        return [
            'url-always-available',
        ];
    }
}

I couldn't find any mention of this specific behavior or requirement in the documentation.
Could you please clarify if this is intended behavior, or if it might be a bug? Perhaps there's a reason for this design that I'm not aware of.
Thanks for your time and help!