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I recently heard about Laravel 8 changing the way routing was declared, as this video explains that developers upgrading from Laravel 7 or earlier will need to either switch to using the PHP callable syntax or fully namespace the controller in the string syntax (as your first code snippet does) (see the section Routing under Upgrading To 8.0 From 7.x).

If you add that use statement at the top then you should be able to reference the class using the ::class keyword for name resolution instead of using a string literal:

'uses' => [CrewAPIController::class, 'Update'], 

I also wasn't familiar with the 'as' syntax, then I found this comment on this accepted SO answer to What does "as" keyword mean in Laravel routing?

As keyword is in older version, if you change the documentation to 5.2 you can see the as keyword. In newer version it's ->name

So you could use the name() method to make the Named route instead:

Route::post('/update-crew', [CrewAPIController::class, 'Update'])
 ->name('apiUpdateCrew');