using a UENUM to safely manage and check an object's movement direction

[DanaFo]

I honestly have struggled to understand how to use UENUM objects because the documentation is really sparse. This is the doc I’m referring to:

Coding Standard

This is what it says:

// Old property
    UPROPERTY()
    TEnumAsByte<EThing::Type> MyProperty;

    // New property
    UPROPERTY()
    EThing MyProperty;

I actually don’t even understand what it means to wrap parameter/return type. All I know is that TEnumAsByte is a template that returns the byte corresponding to the Enum Value right?