Clarification on ActionRequest

[chrisk-7777]

Re the docs: https://laravelactions.com/2.x/add-validation-to-controllers.html#authorization

This is why Laravel Actions provides a special request class called ActionRequest.

An ActionRequest is a special FormRequest class that allows you to define your authorization and validation directly within your action. It will look for specific methods within your action and delegate to them when it needs to.

I read this to mean: by including ActionRequest it will invoke rules() and authorize()
(eg: function asController(ActionRequest $request))

However, from my own testing, rules() and authorize() are invoked regardless if ActionRequest is used or not.

What I would like to confirm is: is it expected for rules() and authorize() to be called even without an ActionRequest?
Or am I relying on undocumented behavior that might get fixed/changed in future?

Example:

<?php

namespace App\Actions;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Lorisleiva\Actions\Concerns\AsAction;

class VoteOnRoadMap
{
    use AsAction;

    public function handle()
    {
        return 'sup';
    }

    public function authorize(): bool
    {
        dump("check auth");
        return true;
    }

    public function rules(): array
    {
        dump("check rules");
        return ['title' => ['required', 'min:8']];
    }

    public function asController(Request $request)
    {
        dump('as controller');
        $data = $request->only('title');
        return $this->handle($data);
    }
}

Note I am not using WithAttributes

Output: