Improve inference for unique with abstract eltypes
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#20317 improved inference of
unique, but problematic cases still arise for containers with known but abstract eltypes. Here, we short-circuit thetypejoinwhen the return type is determined by the element type of the input container.For
unique(f, itr), this commit also allows the caller to supplyseen::Setto circumvent the inference challenges.This resolves a number of invalidations in
PkgandREPL.TODO: update NEWS entry with issue number, once assigned.