Patch for #4225, with additional checks to prevent overwriting user config if error encountered and allow recovery for malformed configs

[zehata]

This is an extension to #4271, details of which I have copied over. @leslieyip02 @jloh02 Patch for #4225, for the issue reported on the morning of 16 Dec by LH (https://t.me/NUSMods/13136)

Post-mortem

1. When the app fetches the timetable modules, it populates the lesson indices which allows the migration of the module config to the new schema https://github.com/nusmodifications/nusmods/blob/d31261e060e45bcd79b07d251f0ffe2403905dee/website/src/reducers/moduleBank.ts#L47-L60

2. The issue was caused by https://github.com/nusmodifications/nusmods/blob/d31261e060e45bcd79b07d251f0ffe2403905dee/website/src/views/AppShell.tsx#L64-L66 calling https://github.com/nusmodifications/nusmods/blob/d31261e060e45bcd79b07d251f0ffe2403905dee/website/src/actions/timetables.ts#L231-L239

When validateTimetable(1) is called when the app successfully fetches the module data for semester 1, it calls migrateTimetableConfigs which migrates the configs for all semesters, including semester 2. Since the request for semester 2 has not returned, the lesson indices has not been populated for semester 2 (see point 1). Trying to migrate the config for semester 2 will thus fail.

Fix

This patch fixes this issue by removing the migrateTimetableConfigs function and instead migrates each semester's timetable config as data is fetched for each of the semester.

It adds checks to prevent overwriting the user's config if any error occurs during the migration process.

It also adds code to create a random config to overwrite malformed configs caused by the migration failure.

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[zehata]

Also, while doing testing, I realized that the error occurred before writing to state, so users' configs were actually not overwritten. Nonetheless, I think it would make more sense to add checks to explicitly ensure that users' configs are not overwritten when errors are encountered.