[Snyk] Security upgrade yargs from 4.8.1 to 16.0.0

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	758/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.3	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-Y18N-1021887	Yes	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: yargs

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 1ffb927 chore: v16.0.0 release
• 5e5e5d0 chore: release 16.0.0 (#1698)
• b215fba feat: adds strictOptions() (#1738)
• c7debe8 feat(helpers): rebase, Parser, applyExtends now blessed helpers (#1733)
• c71783a feat: i18n for ESM and Deno (#1735)
• d360577 build: use release-please action (#1736)
• 4151fee feat: tweaks to API surface based on user feedback (#1726)
• 60234a4 deps(typescript): upgrade to typescript@4.x (#1728)
• bad6f76 docs: use URL to images, for benefit of Deno (#1727)
• b1f647b chore: add back yargs logo
• ac6d5d1 feat: adds support for ESM and Deno (#1708)
• 0f81024 fix(yargs): add missing command(module) signature (#1707)
• a552990 feat(usage)!: single char aliases first in help (#1574)
• f5997e8 refactor(ts): move to TypeScript release of yargs-parser (#1696)
• c06f886 refactor(ts)!: ship yargs.d.ts (#1671)
• 56a589f chore(deps): update dependency @types/mocha to v8 (#1689)
• df283d3 chore(deps): update dependency mocha to v8 (#1674)
• 863937f feat!: drop support for EOL Node 8 (#1686)
• 028b50d chore: release 15.4.0 (#1635)
• 225ab82 feat: support array of examples (#1682)
• e68334b refactor(ts): move and tsify most of root yargs.js to lib/yargs (#1670)
• cb7fbb8 chore: remove old entries from `files` field in `package.json (#1677)
• 34949f8 Revert "chore(deps): update dependency eslint to v7 (#1656)" (#1673)
• 18c2efd docs(api): clarify process.argv handling and the order of API methods (#1644)

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