Expose GEOS coverage simplify as a processing algorithm (Request in QGIS)

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From pull request qgis/QGIS#54939 Author: @nyalldawson QGIS version: 3.36

Expose GEOS coverage simplify as a processing algorithm

PR Description:

Exposes the new (in geos v12) coverage simplification tool as a processing algorithm.

Open questions:

• should we force validation of the coverage prior to simplification? It's added slowness, but the algorithm does requires valid coverages.
• Should the existing geometry validation check apply to coverages also? Ie we check both the feature geometry AND the coverage geometry?

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/assets/1829991/fd37d7ea-bcc8-462f-9b4f-cac463e893ad

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