UI: Port WithTooltip from popper.js to react-aria and adjust internals [2/3]

[Sidnioulz]

Follows #32492
Closes #32249

What I did

Ported WithTooltip and friends to react-aria

• Replaced Popper.js with react-aria

• Removed WithTooltipPure and WithTooltipState in favour of a single WithTooltip that supports both controlled and uncontrolled usage with the same API as WithPopover and WithMenu

• Removed many unused props and renamed some to align with other components

• Added ability to make focus-only tooltip so we can provide KB navigation shortcut hints in the future sidebar

• Reworked stories to match current API

• Reworked Tooltip to have hasChrome and color like Popover, except it doesn't have a close button since it's not interactive

• Removed a lot of arrow-related code we weren't using

• Added stories for Tooltip

• Removed default margin in TooltipNote to make overlay positioning more coherent (use offset on WithTooltip/WithMenu/WithPopover instead)

Deprecated Tooltip-adjacent components

• ListItem and TooltipLinkList because these should be replaced by MenuItem/WithMenu
• TooltipMessage because tooltips are not interactive; a custom popover should be used instead (and we did not use TooltipMessage at all)

Migrated internal UI code

• ArgValue: ported to new API
• InteractiveTooltipWrapper: ported to new API, strengthened children type
• InteractiveTooltipWrapper: changed logic to read data-shortcuts-enabled to provide a better default in the Preview context where the attribute is missing on body; this lets our own stories show shortcut tooltips inside our own Storybook
• Tabs (to be deleted): Fixed up import paths so the code builds
• FileSearchList: Fixed up tooltip management
• FileSearchList: Refactored code to place WithTooltip inside the memoized component, as ref passing was buggy otherwise

Checklist for Contributors

Testing

The changes in this PR are covered in the following automated tests:

• stories
• unit tests
• integration tests
• end-to-end tests

Manual testing

1. Run yarn storybook:ui
2. Open relevant stories
3. Ensure there are no glaring regressions

Documentation

• If you are deprecating/removing a feature, make sure to update
  MIGRATION.MD

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  • feature request: Introducing a new feature.
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