[Merged by Bors] - Improve test config handling #22655

Job	Run time
filter-changes	4s
lint	3m 3s
quicktests	1m 52s
coverage	21m 10s
build (ubuntu-22.04)	1m 4s
build (ubuntu-latest-arm-8-cores)	2m 9s
build (macos-13)	1m 50s
unittests (ubuntu-22.04)	28m 5s
build (self-hosted, macOS, ARM64, go-spacemesh)	28s
unittests (ubuntu-latest-arm-8-cores)	36m 42s
build (windows-2022)	4m 42s
unittests (self-hosted, macOS, ARM64, go-spacemesh)	23m 43s
unittests (windows-2022)	41m 15s
ci-status	7s
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