chore(lint): remove unused code

[thevilledev]

Description

Remove code which is not referenced at all in the codebase. These seem like outdated helper functionality, leftovers from refactor or something related to old (deprecated) k8s versions. Impacts mostly test files.

Did not remove the unused function referenced on #2159 because it is required by the currently commented out test.

Acceptance tests

• Have you added an acceptance test for the functionality being added?
• Have you run the acceptance tests on this branch?

Output from acceptance testing:

Based on this PR, I created a temp branch chore/remove-unused-with-acc-test which has the #2158 acceptance test fixes and then ran GHA for Kind. They pass. See full logs from here.

These tests pass as well:

        make website-lint
        make depscheck
        make fmtcheck
        make test
        make test-compile
        make tests-lint
        make vet

Release Note

Release note for CHANGELOG:

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