chore: Node 22 + ESM

[erickzhao]

WIP.

Closes #3623
Closes #3684

• Bump engines to Node 22
• Update @types/node dependencies
• Upgrade all @electron/ packages to their latest major versions
• Use type: module in package.json
• Drop support Rechoir/Interpret configurations
• Replace ts-node with tsx
• Remove dependencies on distutils and Python 3.11
• Replace lodash with lodash-es
• Upgrade to Vitest 4
• Get fast tests to pass
• Remove Lodash entirely
• Check if we still need jiti for the configuration loading
• Check Forge configuration ESM/CJS compatibility
• Check Webpack plugin ESM/CJS compatibility
• Check Vite plugin ESM/CJS compatibility
• Re-enable ESLint import plugin with correct ESM parsing
• Ensure Forge configurations can still be loaded properly in ESM and CJS
• Pare down PR into its minimal work product and split off other changes into separate PRs

Split off PRs:

• feat(core)!: remove global module templates #4065
• feat(core)!: remove rechoir + lodash templates from config loader #4066
• test: upgrade to Vitest 4 #4079
• test: move AssetRelocatorPatch tests to slow tests #4080
• ci: use .nvmrc file for CI #4081

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Diff	Package	Supply Chain Security	Vulnerability	Quality	Maintenance	License
	@​types/​cross-zip@​4.0.2
	@​tsconfig/​node22@​22.0.5
	@​types/​lodash-es@​4.17.12
	lodash-es@​4.17.21
	vitest@​3.1.3 ⏵ 4.0.14	+1
	@​electron/​get@​3.0.0 ⏵ 4.0.2	+3
	@​electron/​fuses@​1.8.0 ⏵ 2.0.0	+1			+1
	@​types/​node@​18.19.68 ⏵ 22.10.10	+1		+1
	tsx@​4.20.6
	@​electron/​rebuild@​3.7.0 ⏵ 4.0.1	+8
	vite@​6.4.1 ⏵ 7.2.4	+3			-1
	@​electron/​lint-roller@​1.10.1 ⏵ 3.1.3	+1		+1	+8
	@​electron/​osx-sign@​1.3.1 ⏵ 2.3.0	+2
	typescript@​4.8.4 ⏵ 5.9.3	+1		-10		+10
	markdownlint-cli2@​0.19.1
	@​electron/​packager@​18.3.5 ⏵ 19.0.1	+1			+2
	got@​14.6.4
	@​electron-forge/​template-base@​100.0.0

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