Upgrade pants to latest version

[kilemensi]

Description

This PR upgrades pants to the latest 2.23 version. All versions below 2.22 have been deprecated. It also does a bit of house cleaning i.e. formatting, linting and docs improvements.

Type of change

• Chore (non-breaking change which does not add visible functionality but improves code quality)

Screenshots

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Checklist:

• My code follows the style guidelines of this project
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation