Why not, life is about enjoying and at our age there's nothing much to prove or be "tough" about. I'm not ashamed of my walking poles going up hills.
On the Gritfest race last year https://gritfest.co.uk/ we were at a friends farm watching at the top of a big, steep climb, the first 2 racers managed to peddle it and then the 3rd guy came up peddling with a bloody great rucksack, we all clapped and cheered and said "hardcore" and he just looked acros and smiled and said " I'm on an e-bike". Fair play to him, he was a reporter and had his drone equipment in the sack!
Nobody else managed to peddle the hill.