🔪 Get rid of retries within an attempt.

[davinchia]

What

See https://airbytehq.slack.com/archives/C019WEENQRM/p1629383779144300 for more details.

TLDR:
Retrying within an attempt is confusing for a UX perspective (we already have attempts), does not provides more value from a retries perspective (we already have attempts) and inefficient from a resource perspective (hogs up api limits and compute/memory resources).

Follow up ticket: #5571

How

Remove this and all associated functions.

Recommended reading order

Nothing much to look at. We have a lot of tests in place so this should be a generally safe operation.

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[ChristopheDuong]

It's nice that it removes complexity in the code too

[avaidyanatha]

@davinchia +1 for knife emoji

[jrhizor]

Nice!