At the moment we only store the hash of Epoch sub-state in the KVStore. We'd like to directly store all the data there instead.

Suggested implementation

• keep original Snapshot.Epoch API, but back it by the KV-store (this prevents needing to update/refactor all existing usages)
• no (remove) top-level "getter" Snapshot.EpochProtocolState
• top-level access to Epoch-data is still given through KV-Store's canonical representation (interface according to the newest protocol version 👉 KVStoreReader)

Clean up duplicated epoch API at the same time?

Historically grown, the Epoch portion of the Protocol state is exposed in three different places in our APIs (see #5650 (comment)). We would like to consolidate this.

See also #6191