Clarify meta and tags don't trigger state:modified

[mirnawong1]

Summary

• Clarify that changes to meta and tags — including at the column level — do not trigger state:modified, per confirmation from dbt-core maintainers (comment)
• Add meta to the list of configs excluded from state:modified.configs in the state selection method docs
• Add a "tags and meta" section to the state comparison caveats page explaining this behavior and how it differs from description/persist_docs
• Add notes to the meta and tags resource-config pages pointing to this behavior

Fixes #8798

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• https://docs-getdbt-com-git-worktree-issue-8798-state-modified-dbt-labs.vercel.app/reference/node-selection/methods
• https://docs-getdbt-com-git-worktree-issue-8798-state-modified-dbt-labs.vercel.app/reference/node-selection/state-comparison-caveats
• https://docs-getdbt-com-git-worktree-issue-8798-state-modified-dbt-labs.vercel.app/reference/resource-configs/meta
• https://docs-getdbt-com-git-worktree-issue-8798-state-modified-dbt-labs.vercel.app/reference/resource-configs/tags

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