Improve views

[rrazvan1]

Why this should be merged

• deduplicating + cleaning and simplifying views for better readability
• better context propagation
• avoid corrupting intermediate nodes db

How this works

• improving view struct
• cleaning unused calls/extracting logic
• batching intermediate nodes changes (when view is committed)

How this was tested

UTs

Need to be documented in RELEASES.md?

No

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