Commit 7309f44 removed the friend-add trigger because the server now
handles all routing/peering/lookup; the commit message reserved the
modal for 'Connections settings and space-join flows' but neither flow
ever wired it back in. grep across packages/web/src finds only
self-references — pure dead code.
Removing 162 lines of UI plus the stale vi.mock in FriendsPage.test.tsx.
If a per-instance password-re-entry consent UX is ever needed, the
useInstanceConnect hook is the actual abstraction and the modal can be
rebuilt cleanly with current primitives (Modal mobileStyle="fullscreen",
ContextMenuRenderer's bottom-sheet, etc.).
Jannis Braun
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