How to expand route syntax or hook into route creation process?

[faustbrian]

So I've been wondering if it is possible to expand the router without macros by swapping it out. Specifically the route creation, which happens in Illuminate\Routing\Router::createRoute. My use-case would be the to expand the route syntax without relying on macros because the expanded syntax should just work for every HTTP verb without having to use custom functions, so a custom createRoute implementation would be the simplest.

Dug around the source a bit and the router seems to be the only part that has hardcoded calls to Illuminate\Routing\Router and various other classes in that namespace rather than an interface and swapping the router binding in the container results in all kinds of funky issues.

Is there currently any way to hook into the createRoute call or use a custom router? What would be the recommended approaches to hook into the route creation process or is this not possible at all with the current architecture, besides macros?