Cleanup 11apr25

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[dcapwell]

+1 from reviewing https://github.com/belliottsmith/cassandra/compare/serializer-improvements..cleanup-11apr25

This PR is against trunk so don't want to directly approve in GH, but compared to the parent branch for this i am +1

[dcapwell]

after rebasing back on the serializer branch https://github.com/belliottsmith/cassandra/compare/serializer-improvements..cleanup-11apr25 looks good to me; +1 again