[stdlib] Allow metatype comparisons to work with outdated compilers #80859
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Add a new language feature to avoid the stdlib’s swiftinterface becoming unintelligible to older compilers due to the generalization of Builtin.is_same_metatype.
Restore the original version of the
==
operator so that metatypes can continue to be compared even if the generalized version ends up getting omitted.rdar://149396721