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Pipeline wizard placeholder use design tokens

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Using design tokens to maintain contrast between the placeholder text and the sudo pipeline is especially challenging because the color of the content behind is variable and based on the code theme user preference.

Discussion about the path forward can be found in #509400 (comment 2320778756)

I think the best approach here to get this moving is to use your suggested contained message box solution, this will resolve our contrast issues cleanly.

Though worth noting that this is treating the symptom rather than the cause, the core UX problem here is really about the frustrating forced wizard flow that users can't skip. While we can improve the visual design, we should probably track the larger UX issue separately since multiple users have raised concerns about not being able to bypass the wizard when they already have a configuration in place, I have started this issue to track this #515953

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Discussion about the path forward can be found in #509400 (comment 2320778756)
Knowledge group dark mode roll out can be found in Dark mode > Knowledge group (&15768)

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