The dead code was found with:
deadcode -test -filter=k8s.io/kubernetes/test/e2e/framework/... ./test/e2e ./test/e2e_node ./test/e2e_node ./test/e2e_kubeadm
See https://go.dev/blog/deadcode for an introduction.
This removes everything that was reported as dead code for
test/e2e/framework/providers.