upgrade pnpm, electron and other deps

[vraravam]

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Description of Change

1. Upgraded pnpm to 8.15.1
2. Upgraded electron to 28.2.2 (latest stable)
3. Upgraded other deps (minor and tiny versions) where they are drop-in replacements without any other code change
4. Use latest commit of the recipes repo (which brings in same target pnpm version)
5. Add NSFocusStatusUsageDescription which seems to be a new mandatory requirement in upcoming Macos Ventura (I'm running beta of next version - which could be making this mandatory in the future)

Note: Though the fix for persisting the zoom-level has been backported to the 28.x branch of electron, it still isn't present in this version of electron (28.2.2): electron/electron@v28.2.2...28-x-y

Motivation and Context

1. General upkeep
2. Use the latest stable electron if the 29 beta doesn't fructify to a working state upon its release.

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Checklist

• My pull request is properly named
• The changes respect the code style of the project (pnpm prepare-code)
• pnpm test passes
• I tested/previewed my changes locally

Release Notes

[mcmxcdev]

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