Fix infinite effect loop in tabs

[freddyaboulton]

Description

Closes: #13198

• In Fix Tab Interactive Bug #13048, I added _sync_tab helper that ran via svelte 4 $:. However, with apps with large components in hidden tabs (plot, dataframe) this was causing infinite loops. Fixed this by deferring the tabs mutation via tick() so it runs outside the effect reactive context.
• In investigating the tabs issue, I noticed that the dataframe component to cause a similar but different stack overflow exception. Claude tracked this down to how table.setOptions works. Each call wrapped the previous options in a mergeObjects layer. Properties like groupedColumnMode that only exist in the deepest default layer had to traverse every layer on access, eventually overflowing the stack.

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• Fix infinite effect loop in tabs

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[pngwn]

I didnt see either of these issues when i was building demos with tabs and dataframes (many tabs, many dataframes). Do we have a reliable repro?