Remove the type-checking knot.

Bug #15380 hangs because a knot-tied TyCon ended up in a kind.
Looking at the code in tcInferApps, I'm amazed this hasn't happened
before! I couldn't think of a good way to fix it (with dependent
types, we can't really keep types out of kinds, after all), so
I just went ahead and removed the knot.

This was remarkably easy to do. In tcTyVar, when we find a TcTyCon,
just use it. (Previously, we looked up the knot-tied TyCon and used
that.) Then, during the final zonk, replace TcTyCons with the real,
full-blooded TyCons in the global environment. It's all very easy.

The new bit is explained in the existing
Note [Type checking recursive type and class declarations]
in TcTyClsDecls.

Naturally, I removed various references to the knot and the
zonkTcTypeInKnot (and related) functions. Now, we can print types
during type checking with abandon!

NB: There is a teensy error message regression with this patch,
around the ordering of quantified type variables. This ordering
problem is fixed (I believe) with the patch for #14880. The ordering
affects only internal variables that cannot be instantiated with
any kind of visible type application.

There is also a teensy regression around the printing of types
in TH splices. I think this is really a TH bug and will file
separately.

Test case: dependent/should_fail/T15380

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