This reverts commit 9b5950db86.
Waste can be negative. At feerates lower than long_term_feerate this
means that a waste of 0 may be a suboptimal solution and this causes the
search to exit prematurely.
Only when the feerate is equal to the long_term_feerate would achieving
a waste of 0 indicate that we have achieved an optimal solution,
because it would mean that the excess is 0. It seems unlikely
that this would ever occur outside of test cases, and even then we
should prefer solutions with more inputs over solutions with fewer
according to previous decisions—but solutions with more inputs are found
later in the branch exploration.
The "optimization" described in #18257 and implemented in #18262 is
therefore a premature exit on a suboptimal solution and should be reverted.
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