Backport of add feature flag to gate default Sidekiq concurrency limit calculation

What does this MR do and why?

Backport of !230713 (merged)

Adds a new sidekiq_concurrency_limit_default_calculation ops feature flag (disabled by default) that gates the percentage-based default concurrency limit calculation in calculate_default_limit_from_max_percentage.

In GitLab 18.9, GITLAB_SIDEKIQ_MAX_REPLICAS became set by default in the Helm charts (charts/gitlab!4348), which caused the concurrency limiter to activate on Self-Managed and Dedicated and the concurrency limiter was not tuned for these environments.

This feature flag ensures:

  1. Self-Managed and Dedicated installations are not affected by the default concurrency limit calculation unless explicitly opted in
  2. GitLab.com continues using the concurrency limiter as-is (flag enabled)
  3. Workers with an explicit concurrency_limit lambda are unaffected — only the default calculation is gated

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  • This MR is backporting a bug fix, documentation update, or spec fix, previously merged in the default branch.
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Edited by Marco Gregorius

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