[🐛 Bug]: mypy error for action_chains

[MarcelWilson]

What happened?

mypy (1.4.1) is erroring on a incompatible type for ActionChains(driver)

As far as I can tell ActionChains should allow for all of the WebDriver subclasses not just a subset, shouldn't it?

How can we reproduce the issue?

from selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver import WebDriver

driver: WebDriver
ActionChains(driver)

Relevant log output

Argument 1 to "ActionChains" has incompatible type "selenium.webdriver.remote.webdriver.WebDriver"; expected "selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver | selenium.webdriver.firefox.webdriver.WebDriver | selenium.webdriver.safari.webdriver.WebDriver | selenium.webdriver.ie.webdriver.WebDriver | selenium.webdriver.edge.webdriver.WebDriver"  [arg-type]

### Operating System

macOS

### Selenium version

4.11.2

### What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

n/a

### What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

n/a

### Are you using Selenium Grid?

_No response_

[github-actions]

@MarcelWilson, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[symonk]

Thanks @MarcelWilson types are a bit messy at the moment, we need a plan to address and it's been raised in the selenium TLC, hope to improve it in the near future,

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/trunk/py/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py#L138 Exists too; I won't have any capacity today to look at changes

[MarcelWilson]

I also noticed the mypy action seems to always show it's passing and yet if you look at the step 'Test with tox' in any log, it is filled with mypy errors.

selenium/.github/workflows/ci-python.yml

Line 73 in fbfa5d2

tox -c py/tox.ini -- --cobertura-xml-report ci || true

If I'm not mistaken the mypy check is set to always pass regardless of the output

[bandophahita]

I submitted a PR - #12477