[analyzer][NFC] Explain why operator new/delete should never be eval-called (#161370)

Downstream, some change triggered an investigation if we could move a
checker callback from check::PostCall to eval::Call. After a lengthy
investigation that lead to ExprEngine::VisitCXXNewExpr we realized that
CXXNewExprs only trigger a PreCall and PostCall, but never an EvalCall.
It also had a FIXME that maybe it should trigger it.

Remember, it called `defaultEvalCall` which either inlines or
conservatively evaluates aka. invalidates the call. But never probes the
checker eval-calls to see if any would step in.

After implementing the changes to trigger the eval call for the
checkers, I realized that it doesn't really make sense because we are
eval-calling user-provided functions, that we can't be really sure about
their semantics, thus there is no generic way to properly implement the
eval call callback.
This touches on an important point. It only ever makes sense to eval
call functions that has a clear spec. such as standard functions, as
implementing the callback would prevent the inlining of that function,
risking regressing analysis quality if the implemented model is not
complete/correct enough.

As a conclusion, I opted for not exposing the eval call event to
checkers, in other words, keep everything as-is, but document my
journey.

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