gateway monitor "force_down", failover and the problem of "disabling" a gatway

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Document the fact that using "force_down" will failover states while "disable" will merely remove the gateway from usage in most parts of the system (except static routes).

See opnsense/core@6714495b62 for a fix coming to 25.1.7 after testing.

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