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Reproducible Example

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Issue Description

It is already a non-classmethod for StringArray, in order to support different storage attributes that are present on the instance but not on the class. We should make this official if, as seems likely, more dtypes are going to become parametrized (see PDEP-13, PDEP-14)

Expected Behavior

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Comment From: jbrockmendel

cc @jorisvandenbossche i think making this happen would simplify the StrDtype implementation work. Thoughts?