chore(core): use Tick() instead of NewTicker()

[xqqp]

Description

• Replaces all uses of time.NewTicker() with time.Tick(). Since Go 1.23 the garbage collector can automatically clean up unreferenced tickers. Therefore, we can just use Tick() instead of NewTicker() and remove all defer ticker.Stop().
• Removes all calls to stop a timer. Similar to tickers, since Go 1.23 timers can also be garbage collected automatically without calling timer.Stop().
• Remove two ticker member variables that were only used in a single function.
• Changes the function PollTillPassOrTimeout() to use the timeout argument

[matthewmcneely]

Thanks for the improvements!