removing legacy profiler arg

[Tshimanga]

What does this PR do?

Clean up PR that removes the legacy profiler argument profiled_functions. This is due for removal for v1.5

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Codecov Report

Merging #9178 (803d4bb) into master (1657588) will decrease coverage by 4%.
The diff coverage is 100%.

❗ Current head 803d4bb differs from pull request most recent head 19a14f1. Consider uploading reports for the commit 19a14f1 to get more accurate results

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- Hits        13723   13093   -630     
- Misses       1154    1767   +613     

[tchaton]

Great ! Thanks