Desugar quoted uses of DerivingVia and expression type signatures properly
The way that `GHC.HsToCore.Quote` desugared quoted `via` types (e.g., `deriving via forall a. [a] instance Eq a => Eq (List a)`) and explicit type annotations in signatures (e.g., `f = id @a :: forall a. a -> a`) was completely wrong, as it did not implement the scoping guidelines laid out in `Note [Scoped type variables in bindings]`. This is easily fixed. While I was in town, I did some minor cleanup of related Notes: * `Note [Scoped type variables in bindings]` and `Note [Scoped type variables in class and instance declarations]` say very nearly the same thing. I decided to just consolidate the two Notes into `Note [Scoped type variables in quotes]`. * `Note [Don't quantify implicit type variables in quotes]` is somewhat outdated, as it predates GHC 8.10, where the `forall`-or-nothing rule requires kind variables to be explicitly quantified in the presence of an explicit `forall`. As a result, the running example in that Note doesn't even compile. I have changed the example to something simpler that illustrates the same point that the original Note was making. Fixes #18388.
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