Spatie Laravel - Permissions and Roles are not applied, no matter what I do

Hi community!

I'm dealing with a very strange issue regarding the Laravel package Laravel-Permissions from Spatie (v 5.10.0). I've successfully installed the package using Composer2 by following the official guide. And did all further steps, described as follows:

• Added the service provider to config/app.php file
• Published Vendor files (config/permission.php)
• Cleared cached configuration ($ php artisan config:clear)
• Migrated necessary scheme ($ php artisan migrate)
• Added the trait HasRoles the user model

After that I've created a role called admin and applied that role to my user account:

• Entry from "roles" table ......... id: 1 / name: admin / guard_name: web
• Entry from "model_has_roles" table ...... role_id: 1 / model_type: App\User / model_id: 10
• Entry from "users" table: ...... id: 10

Expected behaviour

Role has been set and can be used in routes.php and in blade views as well using something like:

• auth()->user()->hasRole('admin')

Current behaviour

• Dump result of the code snippet above is always false, also after deleting the package's cache.

Do you have any ideas what I can do? I've used the package a couple of times and never had such issues.

Thanks, wish you a nice day! nklss