chore(fw): get weld-ready w/minor fixes to remove dead code

[Carsons-Eels]

🗒️ Description

Remove some method params which were not being used.

🔗 Related Issues or PRs

Related to The Weld, testing the waters for applying Vulture to EEST.

✅ Checklist

• All: Ran fast tox checks to avoid unnecessary CI fails, see also Code Standards and Enabling Pre-commit Checks:

  uvx --with=tox-uv tox -e lint,typecheck,spellcheck,markdownlint

• All: PR title adheres to the repo standard - it will be used as the squash commit message and should start type(scope):.
• All: Considered adding an entry to CHANGELOG.md.
• All: Considered updating the online docs in the ./docs/ directory.
• All: Set appropriate labels for the changes (only maintainers can apply labels).

[marioevz]

LGTM, thanks!

I only didn't merge because it's marked as draft, but we should be able to merge once you say it's ready :)

[Carsons-Eels]

I'll wrap it up and make it live then!