Get bone/socket transforms in AnimBP to avoid skeleton leaf (ik) nodes.

When I needed similar functionality to “find spot in between two specific bones”, I could solve it using CopyBone nodes:
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But I think there is still need in a generic GetBoneTransform for other use-cases.

If you are really in trouble with this now, perhaps adding custom node is an option: