Simplify and sync .pylintrc config for cleaner linting (Fixes #1456) #1473
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I updated the .pylintrc file to make our linting output more useful and less noisy.
Resolved merge conflicts so that local changes and the upstream config are now in sync.
Result: Linting is now more consistent across environments, and the pylint score became more meaningful (improved from ~8.0 → ~9.26 ).