chore: use errors.New to replace fmt.Errorf with no parameters

[RiceChuan]

use errors.New to replace fmt.Errorf with no parameters

[rjan90]

Hey @RiceChuan! Thanks for the contribution - I think it is worth highlighting this comment made by Rod on similar changes earlier in the week in this PR: #12769 (review)

As nice as this is, it's not a hard standard that we enforce in this codebase, in fact we use xerrors more than errors, but even that's not consistent except where we're wrapping errors.

This PR just opens the door to a larger change-set that I don't think I want to encourage as small PRs because it'll just be highlighting the inconsistency rather than solving it:

As there are no other changes in this PR then the errors.New() changes, I will close this PR.