refactor: various improvements around tasks api

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🔗 Linked issue

❓ Type of change

• 📖 Documentation (updates to the documentation, readme, or JSdoc annotations)
• 🐞 Bug fix (a non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• 👌 Enhancement (improving an existing functionality like performance)
• ✨ New feature (a non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• 🧹 Chore (updates to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries)
• ⚠️ Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)

📚 Description

• Add docs
• Fix small type/runtime issues
• Move behind experimental.tasks flag to remove annoying console messages
• Added example to the examples/database playground for migration
• Resolve tasks meta in dev server for listing

📝 Checklist

• I have linked an issue or discussion.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.