Now that `args` parameters is not being used, it is safe to remove from
the constructor signature.
Further work is required to evaluate and clean-up tearing out the
threading-through of `args` from various callers and tests.
This relies on two things:
1. Properly configuring flake8-import-order to use that style
2. Properly configuring flake8-import-order to know that flake8 is our
application name.
