BUG: Ensure singleton dimensions are not dropped when converting ctype arrays to dtypes #11652
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This fixes #11636
Also adds xfailing tests for related issues (#10533, #11651)
This bug has been around forever, but it surfaced in new places due to some of my cleanup elsewhere, so I think is worth of a backport.
As usual, trivially backportable using the web ui