[Settings] String updates and minor UX tweaks (#40249)

## Summary of the Pull Request

- I asked Copilot nicely to rewrite some of our strings to be inline
with the Windows writing style guide and to be less verbose or provide a
better explaination.
- Since the Sound expander on the Always on Top page had a single
setting, turning that into a card.

Before:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/04ec18f1-06a4-4185-ac50-655070dcf3fc)

After:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e5d62e00-5d0a-4a2d-9011-493232689f41)


Simplified UI + less XAML for diagnostics data:

Before:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c0b0468b-7587-4684-8fbf-bad856e4d30c)

After:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/185f2ff8-a3b1-49bd-8617-24b2c5a454a2)



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Co-authored-by: Kai Tao <kaitao@microsoft.com>
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Niels Laute
2025-07-03 16:20:22 +02:00
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@@ -88,16 +88,9 @@
</tkcontrols:SettingsExpander.Items>
</tkcontrols:SettingsExpander>
<tkcontrols:SettingsExpander
x:Uid="AlwaysOnTop_SoundTitle"
HeaderIcon="{ui:FontIcon Glyph=&#xE7F3;}"
IsExpanded="True">
<tkcontrols:SettingsExpander.Items>
<tkcontrols:SettingsCard ContentAlignment="Left">
<CheckBox x:Uid="AlwaysOnTop_Sound" IsChecked="{x:Bind ViewModel.SoundEnabled, Mode=TwoWay}" />
</tkcontrols:SettingsCard>
</tkcontrols:SettingsExpander.Items>
</tkcontrols:SettingsExpander>
<tkcontrols:SettingsCard x:Uid="AlwaysOnTop_Sound" HeaderIcon="{ui:FontIcon Glyph=&#xE7F3;}">
<ToggleSwitch IsOn="{x:Bind ViewModel.SoundEnabled, Mode=TwoWay}" />
</tkcontrols:SettingsCard>
</controls:SettingsGroup>
<controls:SettingsGroup x:Uid="ExcludedApps" IsEnabled="{x:Bind ViewModel.IsEnabled, Mode=OneWay}">