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Revamp rules docs to new style

Marcel Amirault requested to merge docs-move-rules-to-job-control into master

What does this MR do?

Revamp the rules documentation to align it with the new style guide.

This MR applies the standards from https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/cicd/cicd_reference_documentation_guide.html, which is already in use at https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/README.html#only--except.

Similar to the previous only/except changes done in the related issue, the extra details were moved to the job_control.md doc, and crosslinked as needed. The content was moved with only minor edits, as the job_control.md doc will be updated in a separate step, to make this MR easier to review.

The bulk of the changes are in the YAML reference doc, with lots of simplifications and clarifications done along with the style update.

The TOC changes look like this:

Before After
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