Several hosting providers (such as Pantheon) suggest Elysia Cron because it's easier and more reliable to use when you are dealing with high priority cron jobs. For example, Lets say we have a job that sometimes fatals, and we haven't been able to determine the cause. A solution is to break out the high priority jobs behind it into their own cron runs as to guarantee they are not subject to other jobs. I do realize another solution is to change the weight of the cron through hook_module_implements_alter()... but this way allows for use to also break out some of those really long running tasks into quicker cadences and what not.
What I suggest is we take a page from Elysia Cron and add a cron script that allows us to run a single job at an endpoint. See https://cgit.drupalcode.org/elysia_cron/tree/cron.php
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I'm closing this since Drupal 7 is now unsupported and there will be no more development on the Drupal 7 branch of Ultimate Cron either.
Thank you for taking the time and effort in reporting this issue, even though it never got resolved.