It’s annoying why you can’t cast UStructs like this and even worse, if you try to get the StaticStruct of a Struct Pointer, it will always return the StaticStruct of the base pointer type.
For example:
FActorRecord Record = FActorRecord();
Record::StaticStruct() // will be FActorRecord (good).
FRecord* RecordPtr = &Record;
RecordPtr::StaticStruct() // will be FRecord (bad).
The best solution I have come up with is to add a UStruct* ActualStaticStruct variable in your base type (in my case FRecord) and initialise this variable for every derived type by doing ActualStaticStruct = StaticStruct() in every constructor.
I’m not entirely sure what the built-in version of StaticStruct() does but it’s definitely undesirable.