Multiple load_untyped requests for the same labeled asset can result in duplicate asset loads

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Bevy version

0.12.0

What went wrong

As of #10514, load_untyped / load_untyped_async will defer handle creation for labeled assets until after the asset loads, as we cannot know the type ahead of time (unless it is provided manually).

This means that loading a labeled untyped asset multiple times won't always "early out" for duplicate asset loads. If a second duplicate request for a labeled untyped asset is made before the labeled asset handle is allocated in the AssetLoader, a second load of the root asset will occur.

This isn't broken, but it is suboptimal / undesirable behavior. I'm not sure we can fix this without changing how handles work.

Notably, I think moving to "assets as entities" (or an equivalent "universal id with indirection" system) resolves this problem because you no longer need to know the type to allocate an identifier. This would also allow us to "de-async-ify" untyped asset loading, which is one of the pain points people are experiencing with Bevy Asset V2.