Avoid more unnecessary `MetaItem`/`Attribute` conversions.

Avoid more unnecessary `MetaItem`/`Attribute` conversions.

In `Expander::expand` the code currently uses `mk_attr_outer` to convert
a `MetaItem` to an `Attribute`, and then follows that with
`meta_item_list` which converts back. This commit avoids the unnecessary
conversions.

There was one wrinkle: the existing conversions caused the bogus `<>` on
`Default<>` to be removed. With the conversion gone, we get a second
error message about the `<>`. This is a rare case, so I think it
probably doesn't matter much.