Drop backward compatibility hack for fmtlib < 8

I implemented a hack to fix builds against fmt < 8 (see !1455 (comment 6781515)).

In %v37r0 we update the LCG baseline version used in CI tests and at that point we can revert the hack.

We should also evaluate

Edited by Marco Clemencic
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