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Clarify that enabling space awareness in Fleet has no supported rollback - #8270

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https://www.elastic.co/docs/deploy-manage/manage-spaces-fleet contains instructions on how to enable Fleet space awareness for deployments that were created before 9.1.0. The sentence

Previous data is preserved in snapshots in case you need to roll back.

is misleading for two reasons:

  1. The migration path does not create ES snapshots
  2. Rollback is not officially supported

How it works is Fleet copies non space-aware space objects with legacy type (e.g. ingest-agent-policies) into the new space-aware equivalents (e.g. fleet-agent-policies), but legacy SO are not synced from that point onwards, making rollback both difficult and risky.

This PR fixes the wording.

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lgtm, thank you :) one suggestion

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Nice, thanks!

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