Second this.
Have been setting up some small travel routers to use in a mesh configuration and would occasionally find myself "locked out" when reconfiguring and having to use console connection to fix. Ended up setting up a new bridge interface with a static IP and putting it on a VLAN and tagging the switch ports for it. If the mesh side of the network was inaccessible, I could connect with ethernet cable and statically configure an IP and VLAN tag on my host to access it. Much easier since accessing the serial connections requires disassembling the unit.