When you're building a Laravel application, it's tempting to reach for abort() whenever something goes wrong, let's take a flight booking app. trying to check a user in to a flight: abort ( 422 , 'Passenger has already checked in.' ); abort ( 403 , 'Boarding has closed for this flight.' ); abort ( 404 , 'Booking not found.' ); For a quick controller method, this feels fine. But as your application grows — with services, actions, jobs, and console comma...