The @types/styled-components mess

[paulmelnikow]

Wanted to surface this here rather than burying it in a dependabot PR…

As @calebcartwright observed at #5277 (comment) the version of @types/styled-components that we've pinned as a result of DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#33311 is now blocking us from updating TypeScript.

This is untenable.

Part of me wants to try to dive into the DefTyped repo and fix this though I just don't have a ton of bandwidth.

Increasingly the hacky workaround of deleting node_modules/@types/react-native, a package which of course should not be installed into Shields, is feeling like a reasonable way to handle this.

[paulmelnikow]

I'm using the hacky workaround in another project. It seems to be working fine and means we can use the up-to-date type defs and latest TypeScript.

If no one objects I'll open a PR to do that here.

[calebcartwright]

No objections whatsoever!

[paulmelnikow]

DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped#49914

Hallelujah!