How to handle unknown column type

I don’t want to use Auto Type Cast because i’m using a loop, I may have varying input data and i need to be able to control the type based on the column name. Are there any other nodes left that can cast the Non-Native question mark column type like this?

They removed the functionality to cast to string from Column Renamer.

Column expressions has been moved to legacy, which is what I’m using for now, but it’s strange to me that it seems like there’s several pieces of functionality that can only be done by legacy nodes now that this one has been moved.

Are there any other nodes I’m missing? Everything else I’ve looked at can’t interface with non-native column types at all.

Honestly I’d go for column expressions in this case. It’s named legacy but as far as I know or don’t just disappear and think Knime team is aware of this…

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This specific function of the node had problems in the past so it was best not to use it.