feat(pathfinding): first-boot prompt to pre-bake the .swb map cache (#2475)

## What

On **first boot** (right after map selection), offer to pre-bake the pathfinding `.swb` cache for the selected maps. This removes first-pathfind-after-boot latency and is now cheap — ~18 MB/facet after the v8 format work (the old ~565 MB is gone). The answer persists in `modernuo.json` as **`pathfinding.prebakeMaps`** (default **false**): asked exactly once, and skipped on headless/CI boots (redirected input) where operators can set the flag directly.

## How — a generic startup phase, not pathfinding hardcoded in the engine

The clean-console (pre-Serilog) prompt window is inside the engine startup, but UOContent isn't loaded until after `ServerConfiguration.Load`. So rather than coupling the engine to pathfinding, this adds a generic lifecycle phase:

- **`Main.cs`**: new `AssemblyHandler.Invoke("ConfigurePrompts")` — runs **after** `LoadAssemblies` (so content can participate) but **before** the first `logger.Information` (so console prompts aren't interleaved with the async console sink). The first log line moves below it. Any class can hook in with `public static void ConfigurePrompts()` and self-gate on first-boot state. No `ServerConfiguration` or pathfinding coupling added to the engine.
- **`PathCacheCommands.ConfigurePrompts()`**: the first-boot prompt (interactive-only, flag-absent-only); persists the answer.
- **`PathCacheCommands.Initialize()`** (`Invoke("Initialize")` phase, after the tile matrix loads — which the bake walks): when the flag is set, bakes any map whose `.swb` is **missing or stale** (tile-data fingerprint mismatch, via `StepCache.ComputeLiveFingerprint` / `TryReadFingerprintFromFile`). A fresh cache is a no-op, so only the first boot — or a post-client-update boot — pays the several-minute cost.

## Docs

Fixed the now-stale "~565 MB / ~1.5–2 GB / do not bake by default" section in `dev-docs/pathfinding.md` (it's 17.9 MB for Trammel, tens of MB for all six facets after v8), added a "First-boot pre-bake prompt" section, and added the `pathfinding.prebakeMaps` lever row.

## Verified

- `dotnet build UOContent -c Release` → 0 errors (rebased on #2474).
- Pathfinding/StepCache tests: **90/90 pass**.
- Bootstrap streamlining of the startup phases is intentionally left as a follow-up.
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| Commands & targeting | `dev-docs/commands-targeting.md` |
| Event system | `dev-docs/events.md` |
| Threading model | `dev-docs/threading-model.md` |
| Server lifecycle & bootstrap phases (Configure/ConfigurePrompts/Initialize) | `dev-docs/server-lifecycle.md` |
| Configuration system | `dev-docs/configuration.md` |
| Networking & packets | `dev-docs/networking-packets.md` |
| Region system | `dev-docs/regions.md` |