refactor: remove redundant references

[hamirmahal]

Problem

There are some unnecessary &s in the codebase. We take references in places we don't need to.

Changes

There are no frontend changes.

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Does this work well for both Cloud and self-hosted?

It doesn't have an impact.

How did you test this code?

cargo test passes locally.