improve docs for config var abstraction
In ticket:30864#comment:11, I commented on some vagueness in the code comments that made it difficult for me to understand some of what's going on.
We should revise those comments to use improved terminology to help other developers understand what's going on. This might need to wait until the other refactoring on that branch is done.
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