Improve types in victory-core helpers

[carbonrobot]

Update types in victory-core helpers to improve refactoring and static type checking

• Removed an unused function from type-helpers.ts
• Updated getPoint to use coalesce
• Removed the string type property selection from getPadding
• Updated all usages of getPadding

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Latest commit: 7150ba2

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 30 packages

Name	Type
victory-axis	Patch
victory-chart	Patch
victory-core	Patch
victory-cursor-container	Patch
victory-group	Patch
victory-legend	Patch
victory-pie	Patch
victory-polar-axis	Patch
victory-scatter	Patch
victory-stack	Patch
victory-tooltip	Patch
victory-voronoi-container	Patch
victory	Patch
victory-area	Patch
victory-bar	Patch
victory-box-plot	Patch
victory-brush-container	Patch
victory-brush-line	Patch
victory-candlestick	Patch
victory-canvas	Patch
victory-create-container	Patch
victory-errorbar	Patch
victory-histogram	Patch
victory-line	Patch
victory-selection-container	Patch
victory-shared-events	Patch
victory-voronoi	Patch
victory-zoom-container	Patch
victory-native	Patch
victory-vendor	Patch

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