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Pull #9753

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suggest_splits: don't exclude single part configs for too small multi
part configs

I noticed certain ln payments become very unreliable. These payments are ~21k sat, from gossip to gossip sender, with direct, unannounced channel.

Due to the recent fix https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/9723 `LNPathFinder.get_shortest_path_hops()` will not use channels for the last hop of a route anymore that aren't also passed to it in `my_sending_channels`:

```python
if edge_startnode == nodeA and my_sending_channels:  # payment outgoing, on our channel
    if edge_channel_id not in my_sending_channels:
        continue
```

Conceptually this makes sense as we only want to send through `my_sending_channels`, however if the only channel between us and the receiver is a direct channel that we got from the r_tag and it's not passed in `my_sending_channel` it's not able to construct a route now.

Previously this type of payment worked as `get_shortest_path_hops()` knew of the direct channel between us and `nodeB` from the invoices r_tag and then just used this channel as the route, even though it was (often) not contained in `my_sending_channels`.

`my_sending_channels`, passed in `LNWallet.create_routes_for_payment()` is either a single channel or all our channels, depending on `is_multichan_mpp`:

```python
for sc in split_configurations:
	  is_multichan_mpp = len(sc.config.items()) > 1
```

This causes the unreliable, random behavior as `LNWallet.suggest_splits()` is supposed to `exclude_single_part_payments` if the amount is > `MPP_SPLIT_PART_MINAMT_SAT` (5000 sat).
As `mpp_split.py suggest_splits()` is selecting channels randomly, and then removes single part configs, it sometimes doesn't return a single configuration, as it removes single part splits, and also removes multi part splits if a part is below 10 000 sat:

```python
if target_parts > 1 and config.is_any_amount_smaller_than_min_part_size():
    continue
```

This will result in a fallback to all... (continued)

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