Replace use of any in value checker with generic type

[mattwynne]

Description

See details in commit and commit message.

Motivation & context

Partial fix for #1648

Type of change

• Refactoring/debt (improvement to code design or tooling without changing behaviour)

Checklist:

• My code follows the code style of this project.
• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• I have added tests to cover any changes to behaviour of the code.
• All new and existing tests passed.

[coveralls]

Coverage remained the same at 98.247% when pulling cc27fb2 on 1648-replace-any into dd62cbb on main.

[aurelien-reeves]

We should merge that change in and rebase this branch. I don't know why, but the build has been stuck on that other branch.

The build shows the following error:

 Error : .github#L1
actions/checkout@v2, actions/setup-node@v2, actions/checkout@v2, actions/setup-node@v2, coverallsapp/github-action@master, actions/checkout@v2, and actions/setup-node@v2 are not allowed to be used in cucumber/cucumber-js. Actions in this workflow must be: within a repository owned by cucumber.

Someone may have updated the settings of the repo to allow local actions only!?
I suggest to 'allow select actions' including github ones and coveralls

[mattwynne]

Superseded by #1764