Reduce the use of **any** type

[prupipho]

After updating to react-scripts 4,0.1 in #1702 we got some warnings. We fixed most of them in #1706, getting rid of some any types variables but we left and ignored a few of them. // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/explicit-module-boundary-types

We should decide how to stop using any type throughout the application