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Deprecate "verbosity" in favor of specific options

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Description

We could want to deprecate the fuzzy --verbosity option which was always a moving target, in favor of things like:

--mute-cracks
--mute-rules-logging (this should be default for `--pipe` mode so we may also need `--show-rules-logging`)
--mute-mode-info (eg. for incremental and subsets modes printing state information)
--mute-buffer-fill-warnings

--show-autotune
--show-worksizes

Originally posted by @magnumripper in https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/4034#issuecomment-504221769

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No source file or test is named; start by locating the command-line handling for --verbosity and tracing how its output categories are selected. Done means the fuzzy option is deprecated and the proposed mute/show options have defined behavior, including the --pipe default, with tests covering those modes.

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Tech stack
c
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
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