The phrase "albeit critical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrasting idea or qualification, often to acknowledge an important point while also indicating a limitation or exception.
Example: "The project was successful, albeit critical feedback was necessary for improvement."
Alternatives: "although important" or "even if crucial".
But reducing carbon emissions is only one, albeit critical, step.
But that is just one, albeit critical, element of a civil-military strategy that is far from proving itself.
Given the large feature number and sample size in any genomics or proteomics analysis, FDR computation, albeit critical, is both beyond the regular biologists' specialty and computationally expensive, easily exceeding the capacity of desktop computers.
Where the semiconductor supply chain traditionally gets more entwined with China is around testing and packaging, which are generally considered lower value (albeit critical) tasks that have been increasingly outsourced to the mainland over the years.
The homelessness problem is multifaceted, and Proposition HHH represents just one (albeit critical) part of the city and county's response.
Efficiently generating uncorrelated pseudo random numbers is a non-trivial, albeit critical, task for parallelized MC simulations.
He was, and indeed largely remained, a convinced Marxist and an admirer, albeit increasingly critical, of the old Soviet Union.
Just the one century, albeit a critical one in the series-sealing win at Johannesburg, and his tendency to toss away good starts is developing into a bad habit (the game won't always be as easy as it looks now Joe), but they are the only blemishes in another successful series with the bat.
Overall, the guidance is a reflection of the fact social media is now just part of what we do, albeit a critical part, allowing us to talk to people, involve them in our output, and distribute or bring them to our content.
