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Sometimes you just don't have the right connector, none of the alternatives you have will fit, and even your smallest crimp terminal is too big.
So you shove a piece of wire over the pin.
And that, friends, is how I got access to U-Boot on an Extron IN1608 HDBT, dumped the NAND flash, and fixed the corruption which was stopping it from booting 🥳 🎉 #ElectronicsRepair

Would you have guessed there was not just a UART, but also an MMC/SD interface on the diagnostic connector? I didn't.