fix: Prevent GutenbergKit retain cycle

[dcalhoun]

Description

Close CMM-834.

It appears the strong Autosaver references and, possibly, lack of cleaning up asset loading tasks and view elements led to a retain cycle. The retain cycle prevented proper disposal of WebViews. The memory leak likely leads to performance degradations and crashes.

Testing instructions

1. Verify pending changes are persisted via autosave mechanism

1. Open the GutenbergKit editor for a new or existing post.
2. Make content changes—required to rigger autosaver.
3. Attempt saving changes as well as closing the editor with pending changes.
4. Verify new changes are persisted as expected.

2. Verify WebViews are disposed upon editor close

1. Open the GutenbergKit editor.
2. Insert content—required to rigger autosaver.
3. Close the editor and discard/save changes.
4. Repeat a few times.
5. Attempt to inspect the WebView via Safari developer tools.
6. Verify WebViews are not retained after the editor closes.

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
0 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
0.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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Pull Request Overview

This PR fixes a memory leak in GutenbergKit by preventing a retain cycle that was preventing proper disposal of WebViews. The fix addresses strong reference cycles in the Autosaver and improves cleanup of view controllers and tasks during deinitialization.

• Changed Autosaver closure to use weak self reference to break retain cycle
• Added proper cleanup of loading tasks and child view controllers in deinit

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[kean]

This line won't do anything because editorLoadingTask retains self, so there is no way deinit can get called before the task finishes.

[kean]

It looks like a no-op as it happens automatically when the parent is removed.