Do you need to escape hard coded plain text?

The security risk here is not about the plain text but about translation. You should note that esc_html_e is not only a function for escaping HTML but also for localization (l10n). I.e. other people can translate this String but you don’t know what the translation would be. It is possible that somebody translates the String and adds a link or some malicious HTML. Therefore it is better so escape HTML in this case.

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