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msi: migrate to WiX4 (WIP)

Currently, two versions of the WiX Toolset are used to build the MSI installers. WiX v3.11 is used for x86 and x64, and WiX v3.14 is used for ARM64. In addition, using any WiX3 version requires it to be installed on the machine. Also, the WiX team is dropping support for v3 and they are encouraging people to move to v4 which had its preview-1 release on 11th November (3 days ago) and is now in the release candidate phase. It depends on a number of issues that get reported and fixed, but generally, WiX4 is expected to be GA in a few months.

This PR aims to migrate Node's MSI installer to WiX4 in order to unify all installers under a single version and remove all dependencies to WiX3 eg. it can be removed from all CI machines. Since WiX4 is still in preview, some changes that may affect this PR are to be expected as well as some changes to the implementation eg. changing from WiX CLI to MSBuild and .wixproj file, but the main goal now is to try these changes in CI and test installers made that way.

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