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Your research sounds like a correct approach.
At what part of the process are you at the moment? I'm willing to help you out on this.
I agree that it would be a good addition to have proper path finding in the kit.
This might also be worth looking into, in case you are in a rush of getting something working.
https://forum.unity.com/threadsnavigation2d-official-thread-use-unitys-built-in...