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Is it OK to extract some menu items from the main burger menu navigation on medium screen sizes?

A designer I often work with often creates a navigation for websites that looks like this on different screen sizes (mobile, tablet, desktop):

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On small screen sizes (mobile):

  • there's a burger menu holding all menu items

On medium screen sizes (tablet):

  • there are a few menu items that should be displayed as the main navigation
  • there's a burger menu that hold the remaining items

On large screen sizes (desktop):

  • there's only the main navigation, no burger menu

Somehow I don't feel that the approach for medium screen sizes is very good - as it suggest on medium sized screens that there are no more main pages but only meta pages (like privacy, imprint etc.) hidden in the burger menu and the user might miss something. It also leads to duplicate content in the HTML. But then again I'm more a programmer than a designer.

Can somebody elaborate whether this is a useful approach or not?