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What does this Pull Request accomplish?

Add a dependency on the typing-extensions package and import symbols directly from typing_extensions.

Why should this Pull Request be merged?

Single-sourcing typing_extensions imports in a private _typing submodule is not working well. I'm starting to think that avoiding typing_extensions at run time is not worth it. It is lightweight and has no external dependencies.

With a private _typing submodule, sphinx-autoapi renders type aliases as nitypes._typing.TypeAlias. If we use typing.TypeAlias directly, it renders them as a PEP 695 type statement showing what they are aliased to. I have proposed updating sphinx-autoapi to do the same for typing_extensions.TypeAlias: readthedocs/sphinx-autoapi#521

This pattern works for sphinx-autoapi, but not for mypy, due to python/mypy#14220

try:
    from typing import TypeAlias
except ImportError:
    from typing_extensions import TypeAlias  # or from nitypes._typing

What testing has been done?

Ran nps, mypy, pytest.
Generated docs with readthedocs/sphinx-autoapi#521 and verified that type aliases are rendered properly.