[receiver/receivercreator] Make documentation clear on the effects of using the receiver across different signals

[atoulme]

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receiver/receivercreator

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

See #19641 (comment)

Describe the solution you'd like

We should make sure the documentation is accompanied by a few examples to clarify the use case of using the receivercreator across different signals.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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[theletterf]

@atoulme Happy to help. I indeed got wrong the part about the Collector crashing. What I understand now from the previous PR is that a receiver instantiated in pipelines with incompatible telemetry types might not crash when they should?

We need to get the following clear:

• Why this is an issue, in practical terms.
• What are the conditions for this to happen.
• How can this be avoided or mitigated.

The existing note only partially covers the second item.

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