Improve type guards for type variables #15576
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With this PR, when a node is the left hand expression of a property access, element access, or call expression, and the type of the node includes type variables with constraints that are nullable, we fetch the apparent type of the node before performing control flow analysis such that narrowings apply to the constraint type. For example:
Prior to this PR, the property access, element access, and call expressions above were errors.
Fixes #14091.
Fixes #14415.