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inference: `prioritize force_constant_prop` over `const_prop_entry_heuristic` (#41882)

Currently our constant-prop' heuristics work in the following way:
1. `const_prop_entry_heuristic`
2. `const_prop_argument_heuristic` & `const_prop_rettype_heuristic`
3. `force_const_prop` custom heuristic & `!const_prop_function_heuristic`
4. `MethodInstance` specialization and `const_prop_methodinstance_heuristic`

This PR changes it so that the step 1. now works like:

1. `force_const_prop` custom heuristic & `const_prop_entry_heuristic`

and the steps 2., 3. and 4. don't change

This change particularly allows us to more forcibly constant-propagate
for `getproperty` and `setproperty!`, and inline them more, e.g.:
```julia
# if we don't force constant-prop', `T = fieldtype(Foo, ::Symbol)` will be union-split to
# `Union{Type{Any},Type{Int}` and it will make `convert(T, nothing)` too costly
# and it leads to inlining failure
mutable struct Foo
    val
    _::Int
end

function setter(xs)
    for x in xs
        x.val = nothing # `setproperty!` can be inlined with this PR
    end
end
```

It might be useful because now we can intervene into the constant-prop'
heuristic in a more reliable way with the `aggressive_constprop` interface.

I did the simple benchmark below, and it looks like this change doesn't
cause the latency problem for this particular example:
```zsh
~/julia master aviatesk@amdci2 6s
❯ ./usr/bin/julia -e '@time using Plots; @time plot(rand(10,3))'
  3.708500 seconds (7.28 M allocations: 506.128 MiB, 3.45% gc time, 1.13% compilation time)
  2.817794 seconds (3.45 M allocations: 195.127 MiB, 7.84% gc time, 53.76% compilation time)

~/julia avi/forceconstantprop aviatesk@amdci2 6s
❯ ./usr/bin/julia -e '@time using Plots; @time plot(rand(10,3))'
  3.622109 seconds (7.02 M allocations: 481.710 MiB, 4.19% gc time, 1.17% compilation time)
  2.863419 seconds (3.44 M allocations: 194.210 MiB, 8.02% gc time, 53.53% ... (continued)

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