This is a fix for T83386. The add-on previously assigned the FloatProperty to bend. This caused accessing bend in calculations to return a reference to the FloatProperty instead of its value. This patch replaced the assignment with an annotation. This is the correct usage since the Python API changes for Blender 2.80.
NOTE: The add-on currently has another problem T83360 which prevent it from working. For the implementation of the patch I had to comment out the usages of props.leafDupliObj.