Annoyed

This has me losing my mind and I'm so annoyed. I've been looking for a solution to this simple thing for about 2 hours now.. I finally gave up! Why the hell am I getting a 404 not found on the edit page? There is nothing special to this application. It's the stock install I started yesterday to play around with roles and relationships.

My routes

Route::resource('/', App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController::class);

welcome.blade.php

<a href="{{ $user->id }}/edit">Edit</a>

The controller

public function edit($id)
    {

        $user = User::findOrFail($id)
        return view('edit', compact('user'));
    }

I even tried to use dd in the edit method above and that didn't even work.

Here's the route list.. The create route works fine and I am able to insert into the db, but I am not sure why the URI is missing on the show, update, store, destroy and edit routes I never had this problem before.. I think that is the problem but don't know what to do.

GET|HEAD	/	index	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@index	web
POST	/	store	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@store	web
GET|HEAD	api/user		Closure	api
App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate:sanctum
GET|HEAD	create	create	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@create	web
GET|HEAD	sanctum/csrf-cookie		Laravel\Sanctum\Http\Controllers\CsrfCookieController@show	web
GET|HEAD	{}	show	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@show	web
PUT|PATCH	{}	update	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@update	web
DELETE	{}	destroy	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@destroy	web
GET|HEAD	{}/edit	edit	App\Http\Controllers\WelcomeController@edit	web