Remove `dict` from user-facing API (#87) #342

Job	Run time
Run static checkers	41s
Installation tests	24s
macOS	54s
Build with make	5m 21s
Build with CMake [Release, gcc-14, cmake-3.29, sanitizer=""]	5m 52s
Build with CMake [Release, gcc-14, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="thread"]	6m 2s
Windows	3m 54s
Build with CMake [Release, gcc-14, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="undefined"]	5m 52s
Build with CMake [Release, gcc-14, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="leak"]	5m 51s
Windows (MinGW64)	53s
Build with CMake [Release, gcc-14, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="address"]	6m 20s
Build with CMake [Release, clang-18, cmake-3.29, sanitizer=""]	4m 47s
Build with CMake [Release, clang-18, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="thread"]	5m 1s
Build with CMake [Release, clang-18, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="undefined"]	5m 19s
Build with CMake [Release, clang-18, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="leak"]	4m 56s
Build with CMake [Release, clang-18, cmake-3.29, sanitizer="address"]	5m 11s
Build with CMake [Debug, clang-18, cmake-3.29, sanitizer=""]	5m 17s
Build with CMake [Release, gcc-7, cmake-3.13, sanitizer=""]	4m 48s
Build with CMake [Release, clang-12, cmake-3.13, sanitizer=""]	5m 36s
	1h 22m 59s

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