Remaining cache and config overhaul issues for v8.0.0

This issue documents the remaining todo stemmed from #19575 that is needed for v8.0.0 release to avoid tech debt build up (convo starts around #19575 (comment)):

Warn if legacy locations exists and provide recommendation on how to proceed.
Be very sure we're not filling up user HOME directory when they run the refactored test suite locally.

There are 2 sub issues here. I'll address the second one first. There is indeed some minor pollution at the moment: here is the entirety of what's created in my home dir by a test session (all dirs, no files)

❯ tree $HOME/.config/astropy
/Users/clm/.config/astropy

0 directories, 0 files

❯ tree $HOME/.cache/astropy
/Users/clm/.cache/astropy
└── download
    └── url

#19616 is a very small feature that should help us avoiding such pollutions, but it'd needs to go in before the feature freeze, so I'm making it the top priority.

@pllim

I opened #19631 to address remaining test pollution. Though I note that none of it was caused by #19575, so we could also decide to close this issue as completed even without merge. I'll let @pllim decide what to do

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