autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes needs a window refresh for changes to take effect

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autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes

🕗 Version & Regression Information

• This changed between versions ______ and _______
• This changed in commit or PR _______
• This is the behavior in every version I tried, and I reviewed the FAQ for entries about _________
• I was unable to test this on prior versions because _______

⏯ Playground Link

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💻 Code

.vscode/settings.json

{
  "<language>.preferences.autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes": ["<regex>"]
}

🙁 Actual behavior

Changes only take effect after a window reload.

🙂 Expected behavior

Changes to take effect immediately, same way that autoImportFileExcludePatterns does.

Additional information about the issue

I mentioned this earlier on another issue (https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/35395#issuecomment-2371010892) and I initially thought that the update I got fixed the problem, turns out it was just because that forced the window to refresh, as I later encountered the same problem once I tried adding new regexes to it.

Start with the handling of the .preferences.autoImportSpecifierExcludeRegexes setting and compare it with autoImportFileExcludePatterns, using .vscode/settings.json for the configuration shape. Confirm that changing the regex list takes effect without a window reload, matching the existing file-exclusion behavior.