The `ANGULARFIRE2_VERSION` build placeholder ships unreplaced in the library, and `versions.json` never reaches the compiled schematics

### Version info

**Angular:** 21.2.x **Firebase:** 12.x **AngularFire:** 21.0.0-rc.0

### How to reproduce these conditions

1. `npm pack @angular/fire@next` and inspect `fesm2022/angular-fire.mjs` — search for `ANGULARFIRE2_VERSION`.
2. Or in an app: `import { VERSION } from '@angular/fire'; console.log(VERSION.full);`

### Expected behavior

`VERSION.full` (and the underlying `Version` object in `src/core.ts`) should report the real installed version, e.g. `21.0.0-rc.0`.

### Actual behavior

`VERSION` is constructed as `new Version('ANGULARFIRE2_VERSION')` - the build-time placeholder that's supposed to be replaced with the real version before publishing, but isn't for this occurrence. The published package ships the literal string.

A related mechanism is also broken: `src/schematics/versions.json`'s `peerDependencies`/`firebaseFunctionsDependencies` data is filled in by `tools/build.ts` *after* the schematics are bundled with esbuild, which has already inlined the JSON import from the unfilled source file at compile time.
- The post-build edit to `versions.json` on disk is never read by the shipped schematic code.
- One concrete effect: `addDependencies()` in `src/schematics/common.ts` never has real version data to check against, so it can't detect or warn about conflicting dependency versions the way it appears designed to.

Will need a decision on one of these approaches:
- string-replace with a build-time guard, matching what PR #3709/#3711 just did for the schematics' own version placeholder, or
- reworking the `versions.json` inlining - the fix touches `tools/build.ts` and possibly `src/core.ts`, so I wanted to flag it and get a read before picking a direction.

Start with src/core.ts and tools/build.ts, then inspect src/schematics/versions.json and addDependencies() in src/schematics/common.ts. Compare the build-time placeholder handling in PRs #3709 and #3711 and trace when the JSON is bundled. Done means the published VERSION reports the installed version and shipped schematics contain usable dependency version data.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.