chore: update to Rust 1.86.0 (#10282)
### Description
- trait_upcasting is now stable
- ~move some .as_bytes() calls before indexing~ reverted, breaks tests
- use repeat_n where applicable
- one .then() to if .. else
- formatting changes (again)
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