Migrate pipelines and profiling code to `ST::string` #2490

Job	Run time
Check for Max SDK	1s
linux-x64-internal-release	15m 7s
macos-x64-internal-release	21m 23s
linux-x64-internal-debug	12m 35s
macos-x64-internal-debug	14m 5s
linux-x64-external-release	12m 15s
macos-x64-external-release	17m 53s
maxplugin-${{ matrix.cfg.str }}-${{ matrix.cfg.sdk-version }}	0s
windows-x86-internal-release	35m 39s
windows-x86-internal-debug	28m 41s
windows-x86-external-release	31m 40s
windows-x64-internal-release	30m 57s
windows-x64-internal-debug	31m 38s
windows-x64-external-release	32m 58s
	4h 44m 52s

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