chore(deps): bump ImageUpdater from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2; bump argocd from 3.4.2 to 3.4.4 (#2255)

[chengfang]

What type of PR is this?

/kind chore

What does this PR do / why we need it:
cherry-pick from release-0.19 branch to master branch

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• Documentation update is required by this PR.
• Documentation has been updated.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Updated the bundled Argo CD version to 3.4.4.
  • Updated the default Argo CD image updater version to 1.2.2.
• Chores
  • Refreshed the build setup and dependency pins to align with the newer supported Argo CD release.

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Walkthrough

Bumps Argo CD from v3.4.2 to v3.4.4 and argocd-image-updater from v1.2.1 to v1.2.2. Updates the Makefile version variable, Dockerfile image pin, Argo CD default version constant, and matching go.mod requirements and replace override.

Changes

Argo CD and image-updater version bump

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Argo CD v3.4.4 pins across build, defaults, and go.mod Makefile, build/util/Dockerfile, common/defaults.go, go.mod	ARGO_CD_TARGET_VERSION, the Dockerfile base image digest, ArgoCDDefaultArgoVersion, and the Argo CD entries in go.mod are updated to v3.4.4.
argocd-image-updater bump to v1.2.2 controllers/argocd/image_updater.go, go.mod	DefaultImageUpdaterTag and the argocd-image-updater dependency in go.mod are updated from v1.2.1 to v1.2.2.

Estimated code review effort

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Possibly related PRs

• argoproj-labs/argocd-operator#1877: Introduced automation for the same version-wiring touchpoints updated here (ARGO_CD_TARGET_VERSION, common/defaults.go, build/util/Dockerfile).
• argoproj-labs/argocd-operator#2183: Also bumps DefaultImageUpdaterTag in controllers/argocd/image_updater.go and aligns go.mod's argocd-image-updater version.
• argoproj-labs/argocd-operator#2196: Previous Argo CD version bump touching the same set of files: Makefile, common/defaults.go, build/util/Dockerfile, and go.mod.

Suggested reviewers

• dkarpele
• svghadi

🐇 From v3.4.2 to v3.4.4,
The Argo pins now hop once more.
Updater leaps from one to two,
A tidy version trail rings true.

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[svghadi]

@chengfang - can you fix the CI?