fix: hard crash in commands when no API provided

[AlbinaBlazhko17]

What/Why/How?

Fixed a hard crash in build-docs, stats, and score when no API was provided either via the command argument or in the config. These commands — along with bundle, which previously exited silently with no output — now exit with a clear, consistent error message pointing the user to the missing input.

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Low risk: centralizes an existing validation case into getFallbackApisOrExit with a clearer message, affecting only CLI argument/config error handling paths.

Overview
Prevents CLI commands that rely on getFallbackApisOrExit from proceeding with an empty API list by making getFallbackApisOrExit exit with a clear, consistent message when neither CLI args nor config define any APIs.

Removes redundant !apis.length checks from lint and scorecard-classic, updates tests accordingly, and adds a changeset for a patch release.

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Latest commit: fb35285

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

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@redocly/cli	Patch
@redocly/openapi-core	Patch
@redocly/respect-core	Patch

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CLI Version	Mean Time ± Std Dev (s)	Relative Performance (Lower is Faster)
cli-latest	1.915s ± 0.011s	▓ 1.00x (Fastest)
cli-next	1.934s ± 0.034s	▓ 1.01x

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Coverage Report

Status	Category	Percentage	Covered / Total
🔵	Lines	80.7% (🎯 80%)	7194 / 8914
🔵	Statements	80.08% (🎯 80%)	7473 / 9331
🔵	Functions	83.68% (🎯 83%)	1436 / 1716
🔵	Branches	72.38% (🎯 72%)	4887 / 6751

File Coverage

File	Stmts	Branches	Functions	Lines	Uncovered Lines
Changed Files
packages/cli/src/commands/lint.ts	74.46%	50%	50%	74.46%	74-76, 128-157
packages/cli/src/commands/scorecard-classic/index.ts	0%	0%	0%	0%	35-184
packages/cli/src/utils/miscellaneous.ts	61.67%	58.2%	78.04%	60.97%	75, 140, 197-247, 273-274, 284-285, 300, 304, 307, 313, 317-320, 328-361, 372, 397, 406, 414-452, 565, 574

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[tatomyr]

Please also look if other commands have the same problem.

[AlbinaBlazhko17]

score and stats also hard crashed, when no API's were provided and bundle silently failed. I decided to move exitWithError in getFallbackApisOrExit function.