Remove VerboseModule so zarr.storage can be serialized

[Yi-111-a]

Closes #4029.

Problem

src/zarr/storage/__init__.py replaced the imported module with a VerboseModule subclass of types.ModuleType:

sys.modules[__name__].__class__ = VerboseModule

Its only purpose was to warn when zarr.storage.default_compressor was set.

Serializers dispatch on the exact type of an object. cloudpickle — which Dask uses by default — registers a reduce for ModuleType, but VerboseModule is not in that table, so serialization fell through to object.__reduce_ex__ and failed:

TypeError: cannot pickle 'VerboseModule' object

I reproduced this on the current main (before this change) and confirmed the fix removes it:

$ python -c "...sys.modules['zarr.storage'].__class__ = VerboseModule; cloudpickle.dumps(zarr.storage)"
TypeError: cannot pickle 'VerboseModule' object

Fix

Remove VerboseModule entirely, as suggested by @d-v-b in #4029 ("we can remove that verbosemodule thing -- it only existed to emit a warning for long-deprecated behavior"), along with the now-unused imports and the test_default_compressor_deprecation_warning test that covered the removed warning.

This also fixes plain pickle, which fails with cannot pickle 'VerboseModule' object today and cannot pickle 'module' object after — modules are not serializable with plain pickle in either case, so nothing regresses there. cloudpickle is what actually matters for the Dask use case in the issue, and it round-trips correctly again.

Behaviour change

Setting zarr.storage.default_compressor no longer emits a deprecation warning. zarr.config remains the supported way to configure array.v2_default_compressor.

Testing

• New regression test tests/test_store/test_core.py::test_storage_module_is_picklable asserts type(zarr.storage) is ModuleType and that cloudpickle round-trips the module.
• cloudpickle added to the test dependency group (it was already an indirect dependency; needed to be a direct test dep).
• Release note in changes/4029.bugfix.md.
• pytest tests/test_store/test_core.py tests/test_v2.py tests/test_api.py → 634 passed, 9 skipped (CuPy/GPU).
• ruff check, ruff format --check, and mypy src/zarr/storage/__init__.py all clean.

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