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*: drop some __future__ and TYPE_CHECKING imports

Move imports out of `if TYPE_CHECKING:` blocks to real module-level imports
where it doesn't cause circular imports, and drop the accompanying
`from __future__ import annotations` where possible. Forward references to
still-needed TYPE_CHECKING-only imports are preserved, and the few files
that still require them (e.g. for self-referential annotations or known
circular dependencies between backend, config, manager, etc.) keep both
the guard and the future import.

We can remove all of these __future__ and imports and TYPE_CHECKING guards
once our lowest supported python version is 3.14, which imports PEP 649,
deferred evaluation of annotations: https://peps.python.org/pep-0649/

This gets rid of ~300 lines of boilerplate that I often find inscrutable:
"when should I put this in TYPE_CHECKING? when should I not? why the
difference?".

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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