Many things broken since the new 4.0.0 release

### Describe the bug

The new changes in 4.0.0 are breaking many datasets, including those from lm-evaluation-harness.
I am trying to revert back to older versions, like 3.6.0 to make the eval work but I keep getting:
``` Python
File /venv/main/lib/python3.12/site-packages/datasets/features/features.py:1474, in generate_from_dict(obj)
1471 class_type = _FEATURE_TYPES.get(_type, None) or globals().get(_type, None)
1473 if class_type is None:
-> 1474 raise ValueError(f"Feature type '{_type}' not found. Available feature types: {list(_FEATURE_TYPES.keys())}")
1476 if class_type == LargeList:
1477 feature = obj.pop("feature")

ValueError: Feature type 'List' not found. Available feature types: ['Value', 'ClassLabel', 'Translation', 'TranslationVariableLanguages', 'LargeList', 'Sequence', 'Array2D', 'Array3D', 'Array4D', 'Array5D', 'Audio', 'Image', 'Video', 'Pdf']

```

### Steps to reproduce the bug

``` Python
import lm_eval
model_eval = lm_eval.models.huggingface.HFLM(pretrained=model, tokenizer=tokenizer)
lm_eval.evaluator.simple_evaluate(model_eval, tasks=["winogrande"], num_fewshot=5, batch_size=1)
```

### Expected behavior

Older `datasets` versions should work just fine as before

### Environment info

- `datasets` version: 3.6.0
- Platform: Linux-6.8.0-60-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.39
- Python version: 3.12.11
- `huggingface_hub` version: 0.33.1
- PyArrow version: 20.0.0
- Pandas version: 2.3.1
- `fsspec` version: 2025.3.0