docs: [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 18] Update options guidance

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PR Stack (Logs and Metrics Enable Flags)

• feat(core): Remove Logs and Metrics enable flags #5939
• feat(logback): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 1] Add Logs opt-in #5940
• feat(log4j2): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 2] Add Logs opt-in #5941
• feat(jul): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 3] Add Logs opt-in #5942
• feat(android): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 4] Add Timber Logs opt-in #5943
• feat(android): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 5] Add Logcat Logs opt-in #5945
• feat(spring): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 6] Add logging Logs opt-in #5946
• feat(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 7] Remove Logs enable flag #5947
• feat(android): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 8] Warn for legacy Logs metadata #5949
• feat(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 9] Warn for legacy Logs configuration #5950
• feat(spring): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 10] Warn for legacy Logs property #5951
• perf(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 11] Avoid unused Logs worker thread #5952
• feat(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 12] Remove Metrics enable flag #5953
• feat(android): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 13] Warn for legacy Metrics metadata #5954
• feat(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 14] Warn for legacy Metrics configuration #5955
• feat(spring): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 15] Warn for legacy Metrics property #5956
• perf(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 16] Avoid unused Metrics worker thread #5957
• fix(jul): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 17] Preserve null-message records #5960
• docs: [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 18] Update options guidance #5961
• fix(android): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 19] Read Timber option lazily #5964
• fix(core): [Logs and Metrics Enable Flags 20] Make migration warnings visible #5966

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📜 Description

Updates the repository's options guidance to match the Logs and Metrics configuration model introduced by this stack.

The rule now distinguishes deliberate API capture from automatic integrations, documents every integration-local Logs opt-in, and prevents future changes from restoring obsolete aggregate enable flags.

💡 Motivation and Context

The previous guidance instructed maintainers and coding agents to add and check aggregate enabled fields, bind sentry.logs.enabled, and apply Android aggregate metadata. Those instructions no longer compile or match the intended architecture after removal of the Logs and Metrics enable flags.

💚 How did you test it?

• Reviewed the updated rule against core, Android, Spring Boot, and logging integration behavior in this stack
• Searched the rule for stale aggregate API examples
• ./gradlew spotlessApply apiDump

📝 Checklist

• I added GH Issue ID & Linear ID
• I added tests to verify the changes.
• No new PII added or SDK only sends newly added PII if sendDefaultPII is enabled.
• I updated the docs if needed.
• I updated the wizard if needed.
• Review from the native team if needed.
• No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.
• No breaking change for hybrid SDKs or communicated to hybrid SDKs.

🔮 Next steps

Publish the user-facing Java and Android migration guide tracked separately for this stack.

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⚠️ Merge this PR using a merge commit (not squash). Only the collection branch is squash-merged into main.

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