Some more consensus-related changes

[jasagredo]

Description

Add your description here, if it fixes a particular issue please provide a
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Checklist

• Commit sequence broadly makes sense and commits have useful messages
• New tests are added if needed and existing tests are updated. These may include:
  • golden tests
  • property tests
  • roundtrip tests
  • integration tests
    See Runnings tests for more details
• Any changes are noted in the CHANGELOG.md for affected package
• The version bounds in .cabal files are updated
• CI passes. See note on CI. The following CI checks are required:
  • Code is linted with hlint. See .github/workflows/check-hlint.yml to get the hlint version
  • Code is formatted with stylish-haskell. See .github/workflows/stylish-haskell.yml to get the stylish-haskell version
  • Code builds on Linux, MacOS and Windows for ghc-9.6 and ghc-9.12
• Self-reviewed the diff

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[fraser-iohk]

can't speak to the Dijkstra-related changed but the tracing changes are all good 👍