Raise minimum Bazel version to 6.5.0 #4171
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Many other rulesets (such as rules_java and protobuf) have dropped support for Bazel 5. We also drop support for Bzlmod with Bazel 6 due to rules_jvm_external doing so. This should unblock #4141.
Also remove unnecessary CI exclusions.