MAINT: Use mypy recursive type support

[j-t-1]

In mypy>=1.7 recursive type support is built-in.

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[j-t-1]

Is this failing because mypy==1.4.1 is being used in ci.txt?

Fixable if pip-compile requirements/ci.in is run with Python 3.8?

[stefan6419846]

These are docs build issues, not related to mypy. They might be fixed with a more recent sphinx version, but this requires further updates to other packages and the configuration file: #2573 (comment) I had planned to do this in the summer, but have been quite busy with more important tasks. I will try to find some time in the next weeks.

[stefan6419846]

Apparently Sphinx does not like recursive types. Does delayed evaluation with __future__.annotations work? Otherwise, we might have to look for a corresponding upstream issue or report one ourselves.