Restructured deeply nested documentation files #3752
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Description
This PR restructures documentation sections that had excessively deep heading hierarchies in order to improve navigation, readability, and conceptual clarity. The changes focus on correcting the document structure itself by aligning heading depth with conceptual importance.
Specifically, this PR:
This PR serves as a pilot restructuring that establishes a clear and reusable pattern for addressing similar structural issues elsewhere in the documentation.
Motivation and Context
Several PEcAn documentation files contained heading hierarchies 5–6 levels deep (e.g. section numbers like 15.2.3.4.1.2), leading to poor navigation, unreadable numbering, and structural inconsistencies such as skipped heading levels. Many deeply nested sections represented examples or procedural variants rather than true conceptual hierarchy.
Earlier discussion considered hiding deep section numbers via CSS, but this would only mask the underlying organizational problems. This PR addresses the root cause by restructuring the content hierarchy so numbering depth becomes manageable naturally.
Fixes #3741.
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