Replace avatar with username in pending connection message

When viewing the profile of a member that has requested a connection, a message shows above the profile that tells us that connection request from that member is pending our approval. However, the message does not show the username but rather a microscopic version of that person's avatar.



How can we replace the tiny avatar icon with the member's username? I can see in the language file that the message comes from:

'CONNECTIONS_THE_CONNECTION_WITH_USER_IS_PENDING_YOUR_ACCEPTANCE' => 'The connection with [user] is pending your acceptance',

I tried various substitutions replacements for [user] but they didn't work.

You can't, substitutions are not supported there. The only replacement available is [user] and is the users avatar. We'll be redesigning that in the future once we start redoing all of core CB views as Twig templates, which will be happening sometime this year.