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Issue Description

When upgrading from typescript-eslint 5.x.x to 6.x.x I started seeing false positive errors "used by decorator metadata" for types that are used in constructor parameters, even if the class itself is not using any decorators at all.

So given these two files

export class ClassA {}

import type { ClassA } from "./classA";

export class ClassB {
    public constructor(classA: ClassA) {}
}

we would expect no errors, as no decorators are involved in either file.

Instead we get an error reported for the import of ClassA:

1:1  error  Type import "ClassA" is used by decorator metadata  @typescript-eslint/consistent-type-imports

Reproduction Repository Link

https://github.com/mpotthoff/consistent-type-imports-decorator-bug

Repro Steps

1. clone the repo
2. npm install
3. npx eslint classB.ts

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