Why do we need gates in laravel if there is a middleware?

Question

Laravel

Hello.
I can not understand in any way what is the point of using gates in laravel. Read that gates use for check of roles and authorization.
Isn't it more convenient to use middleware ?
You create a middleware, add a group with this middleware to the router, upload pages there that need verification for authorization and roles.
What did I miss?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Because authentication and authorization are different things.
Because gates and middleware are completely unrelated things.
I recommend reading the documentation not diagonally, but sequentially.