Question about return type for with/without methods on HierarchicalPath

[SeriousKen]

Q	A
Package	league/uri-components
Version	7.5.1

Question

Is there any reason that the withLeadingSlash, withoutLeadingSlash, withTrailingSlash, withoutTrailingSlash and withoutDotSegments have a return type of PathInterface and not SegmentedPathInterface on the HierarchicalPath class?

This currently causes an issue with intellisense where the order of chaining methods matters. For example, in VSCode using the PHP Intellephense plugin the following code is highlighted as an error (assuming $path is an instance of HierarchicalPath)

$path->withoutLeadingSlash()->withoutEmptySegments();

Whereas if I was to swap the methods to:

$path->withoutEmptySegments()->withoutLeadingSlash();

Then the code would be highlighted as correct.

If I change the return type in the class methods from PathInterface to SegmentedPathInterface then both work as expected with intellisense and are not highlighted as errors. Also, the change does not cause any of the current PhpUnit test suite to fail.