Add wildcards option in config (full backward compatibility)

[virio-andreyana]

Closes #729

Changes proposed in this Pull Request

Add wildcards options in config with full backward compatibility.

• If the wildcard is given, then its value is used.
• If the wildcard is not given but the options in config are available, then the value from config is used.
• If neither is given, the the program should still work fine.

Checklist

• I tested my contribution locally and it seems to work fine.
• Code and workflow changes are sufficiently documented.
• Changed dependencies are added to envs/environment.yaml.
• Changes in configuration options are added in all of config.default.yaml.
• Changes in configuration options are also documented in doc/configtables/*.csv.
• A release note doc/release_notes.rst is added.