Refactor To function to use new for pointer creation

[janisz]

Updated To function to use new instead of address-of operator.

• https://go.dev/blog/inliner
• https://go.dev/ref/spec#Allocation
• spec: expression to create pointer to simple types golang/go#45624

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We don't need To function anymore as it's now built in new functionality.

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[skitt]

k/utils has to support all current branches of k/k, so we can’t bump to Go 1.26 until Kubernetes 1.35 has reached EOL.

[skitt]

From my tests so far, Go 1.26 isn’t able to apply this fix inline 😦.