This function practically returned true from inception.
In d38deef499
It started using messaging_service().knows_version(endpoint)
that also returns `true` unconditionally, to this day
So there's no point calling it since we can assume
that `uses_host_id` is true for all versions.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@scylladb.com>
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