Simplify power operator hugging implementation

[adamsol]

Description

This PR replaces the current power operator hugging implementation, which uses transformers and is quite complicated, with a simpler one, implemented directly in the whitespace function.

The original implementation was created in #2726 and later fixed in #2806, #2874, #3942, #4154. Currently it takes around 150 lines of code, while the new implementation takes around 30 lines.

A minor side-effect of the change is that the whitespace is removed also if the power operator is moved to a separate line, so we'll have 1<newline>**1 instead of 1<newline>** 1. But this shouldn't occur in any normal code and wasn't even tested in the original PR.

Here's how this commit would look like (all deleted lines etc.) without preview mode: adamsol@2444f5c

The main rationale for this refactoring was to extract the condition for power operator hugging into one function, so that the logic could be shared with another change that I want to upload later (edit: #4925). While making it, I also found a small bug related to the power operator (in the visit_factor function), for which I'm planning to submit a separate PR.

Let me know if there could be some specific reason the original implementation did not use the whitespace function, or if I'm missing anything else (this is my first commit here).

Checklist - did you ...

• Implement any code style changes under the --preview style, following the
  stability policy?
• Add an entry in CHANGES.md if necessary?
• Add / update tests if necessary?
• Add new / update outdated documentation?

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[cobaltt7]

This change looks like an improvement to me, thanks! Will merge after the 2026 style is stabilized, because we want to reduce noise in that release.