backport: Merge bitcoin#22619, 22593#6071

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Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#22619: test: refactor: use consistent bytes <-> hex-string conversion in functional test framework

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Merge bitcoin#22593: remove `hex_str_to_bytes` helper

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