[Grid] Improve column prop to accept string

[rcass]

WHY are these changes introduced?

Fixes #9390

WHAT is this pull request doing?

How to 🎩

🖥 Local development instructions
🗒 General tophatting guidelines
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Copy-paste this code in playground/Playground.tsx:

import React from 'react';
import {Page} from '../src';

export function Playground() {
  return (
    <Page title="Playground">
      {/* Add the code you want to test in here */}
    </Page>
  );
}

🎩 checklist

• Tested on mobile
• Tested on multiple browsers
• Tested for accessibility
• Updated the component's README.md with documentation changes
• Tophatted documentation changes in the style guide

[rcass]

Closing this PR for now since this is quite old - but improvement recommendation still stands.

[kyledurand]

I think this is being addressed here