Improve control of outgoing connection lifecycles #77672
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Today we open connections to other nodes in various places and largely
assume that they remain open as needed, only closing them when applying
a cluster state that removes the remote node from the cluster. This
isn't ideal: we might preserve unnecessary connections to remote nodes
that aren't in the cluster if they never manage to join the cluster, and
we might also disconnect from a node that left the cluster while it's in
the process of re-joining too (see #67873).
With this commit we move to a model in which each user of a connection
to a remote node acquires a reference to the connection that must be
released once it's no longer needed. Connections remain open while there
are any live references, but are now actively closed when all references
are released.
Fixes #67873
Backport of #77295