deps: clean up dependency exclusion

Author: mutianf

google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml

@@ -211,13 +211,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
       <artifactId>grpc-opentelemetry</artifactId>
-      <!-- TODO: remove this after next release (2.72.0). This is necessary to workaround a late downgrade of otel in cloud-shared-deps -->
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion>
-          <groupId>io.opentelemetry</groupId>
-          <artifactId>opentelemetry-api</artifactId>
-        </exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.threeten</groupId>