Docs: highlight structure vision (#342978)

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin@gagarin.work>
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This directory houses the sources files for the Nixpkgs reference manual.
Going forward, it should only contain [reference](https://nix.dev/contributing/documentation/diataxis#reference) documentation.
For tutorials, guides and explanations, contribute to <https://nix.dev/> instead.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> We are actively restructuring our documentation to follow the [Diátaxis framework](https://diataxis.fr/)
>
> Going forward, this directory should **only** contain [reference documentation](https://nix.dev/contributing/documentation/diataxis#reference).
> For tutorials, guides and explanations, contribute to <https://nix.dev/> instead.
>
> We are actively working to generate **all** reference documentation from the [doc-comments](https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/blob/master/rfcs/0145-doc-strings.md) present in code.
> This also provides the benefit of using `:doc` in the `nix repl` to view reference documentation locally on the fly.
For documentation only relevant for contributors, use Markdown files and code comments in the source code.
For documentation only relevant for contributors, use Markdown files next to the source and regular code comments.
> [!TIP]
> Feedback for improving support for parsing and rendering doc-comments is highly appreciated.
> [Open an issue](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/new?labels=6.topic%3A+documentation&title=Doc%3A+) to request bugfixes or new features.
Rendered documentation:
- [Unstable (from master)](https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/unstable/)