Using navigate component for render-time decisions

[pgsandstrom]

The docs currently say about the navigate component "It's recommended to avoid using this component in favor of useNavigate." https://reactrouter.com/api/components/Navigate

Im currently develop a quite huge app. Sometimes when we load a route we do quite a bit of calculation to see if this is a view that the user should be viewing. When it is not, we use the navigate component to send them away. Is this a "proper" usage of the navigate component?

Technically we could do all this evaluation where we create the Routes/Route stuff. But that contains hundreds of routes, and evaluating which of all these routes that are valid would require downloading much data and doing heavy calculations.