feat: drop cachetools dependency in favor of simple local implementation

[akx]

This PR drops the dependency on cachetools, which was only used for its LRU cache class, in favor of a simple local implementation.

This should have a small but positive effect on many downstream users given how many times this library is downloaded per day.

[clundin25]

Thank you @akx. Is using the standard library a reasonable alternative? https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.lru_cache

[akx]

@clundin25 Unfortunately not. The transparency of a lru_cached function is not really compatible with how the client code here is e. g. doing if foo in cache:.

[akx]

@clundin25 Is there anything I can do to help this move along?

[westarle]

How big is the change to update the client code so it can use the standard library and avoid maintaining this implementation?

/cc @sai-sunder-s