MenuLink vs MenuLinkContent – what’s the point?

I’m struggling to figure out relationship between MenuLink and MenuLinkContent.

I’m creating new menu item like:

$menuItem = MenuLinkContent::create($params); 

And that works well. Now if I need one of those object I want to get it’s "siblings" – other object that share same parent. I have some weird structure:

$this->menuLinkManager = Drupal::service('plugin.manager.menu.link'); $parentId = $menuItem->getParentId(); $parent = $this->menuLinkManager->createInstance($this->menuLinkManager->getDefinition($parentId)['id']); 

And here I’m getting it’s parent, but it’s not MenuLinkContent object any more but instance of MenuLinkInterface. It has some fields as MenuLinkContent, but not all. I.e. I don’t know how to get link path and similar.

There I can go further:

$siblings = $this->menuLinkManager->getChildIds($parent->getPluginId()); 

But main question is how to get MenuLinkContent when I have that MenuLinkInterface object?

Sub-question – why oh why is needed this parallel menu system and parallel menu classes?

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