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[compiler]: Constraint solving issue with reflection types
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Description
### Describe the bug
Reflection types allow you to define some templates that are transitively unsound because reflection types are themselves models and can assign by constraint to `Reflection.Model`.
Unsound instantiations are prevented when the instantiation is checked, but the diagnostics are provided _on the template definition, at instantiation time_.
### Reproduction
```tsp
// The Type system does not know that an instantiation of `E` cannot satisfy the
// constraint of `M`, because the compiler is checking if `Reflection.Enum` is
// assignable to `Reflection.Model`, which it is because `TypeSpec.Reflection.Enum`
// is technically defined as a Model.
alias Foo = Bar;
alias Bar = {
...M,
};
```
https://typespec.io/playground/?e=%40typespec%2Fopenapi3&c=YWxpYXMgRm9vPEUgZXh0ZW5kcyBSZWZsZWN0aW9uLkVudW0%2BID0gQmFyPEU%2BOwoKxjDED03UME1vZGVsxDF7CiAgLi4uTSwKfTsK&options={}&vs={}
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