Don't use quoted forward annotations unless absolutely required, beca… #2974
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Same as #2973 except for the 7.x branch, this is a bit different because its using the old python 3.8-compatible typing patterns, and still needs to work with sphinx-autodocs < 2.3, and sphinx < 7.4, for when running on python <3.9.
Fixes #2912