Reject nested foralls/contexts in instance types more consistentlywip/T18240

GHC is very wishy-washy about rejecting instance declarations with
nested `forall`s or contexts that are surrounded by outermost
parentheses. This can even lead to some strange interactions with
`ScopedTypeVariables`, as demonstrated in #18240. This patch makes
GHC more consistently reject instance types with nested
`forall`s/contexts so as to prevent these strange interactions.

On the implementation side, this patch tweaks `splitLHsInstDeclTy`
and `getLHsInstDeclHead` to not look through parentheses, which can
be semantically significant. I've added a
`Note [No nested foralls or contexts in instance types]` in
`GHC.Hs.Type` to explain why. This also introduces a
`no_nested_foralls_contexts_err` function in `GHC.Rename.HsType` to
catch nested `forall`s/contexts in instance types. This function is
now used in `rnClsInstDecl` (for ordinary instance declarations) and
`rnSrcDerivDecl` (for standalone `deriving` declarations), the latter
of which fixes #18271.

On the documentation side, this adds a new
"Formal syntax for instance declaration types" section to the GHC
User's Guide that presents a BNF-style grammar for what is and isn't
allowed in instance types.

Fixes #18240. Fixes #18271.

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