`banlist.dat` was introduced in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6310, storing nodes that were automatically banned (due to exceeding the misbehavior threshold) and manually banned (through the `setban` RPC).

Automatic bans were removed in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19219 and replaced with a discouragement filter. That filter is not saved to disk/persisted over shutdown/startup. The `banlist.dat` therefore now only contains addresses that have been banned through the `setban` rpc.

Since https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/15935, we have a specific file for configuration that is updated through the RPC and persisted over shutdown/startup, namely `settings.json`. We should therefore move the manual ban configuration from `banlist.dat` to `settings.json`. Doing so has a couple of benefits:

- `settings.json` is human readable and easily analyzable by any json parser.
- we wouldn't need to maintain custom [de]serialization code for the `banlist.dat` file.

`banlist.dat` is expected to be fairly small and infrequently updated, so disk space/performance are not huge concerns.
#endif
    node.chain_clients.clear();
    UnregisterAllValidationInterfaces();
    GetMainSignals().UnregisterBackgroundSignalScheduler();
    init::UnsetGlobals();
    node.mempool.reset();
    node.fee_estimator.reset();
    node.chainman.reset();
    node.scheduler.reset();
    try {
        if (!fs::remove(GetPidFile(*node.args))) {
            LogPrintf("%s: Unable to remove PID file: File does not exist\n", __func__);
        }
    } catch (const fs::filesystem_error& e) {
        LogPrintf("%s: Unable to remove PID file: %s\n", __func__, fsbridge::get_filesystem_error_message(e));
    }
    node.args = nullptr;
    LogPrintf("%s: done\n", __func__);
}
/**
 * Signal handlers are very limited in what they are allowed to do.
 * The execution context the handler is invoked in is not guaranteed,
 * so we restrict handler operations to just touching variables:
 */
#ifndef WIN32
static void HandleSIGTERM(int)
{
    StartShutdown();
}
static void HandleSIGHUP(int)