Re: [webrtc-pc] Clarify "multiple sources of media stitched together" at Note describing replaceTrack (#2171)

@jan-ivar I believe the text in the note is actually incorrect.  When receiving simulcast, the `RtpReceiver` *does* need to combine two distinct RTP streams into a single track.  This is non-trivial because re-ordering can cause the streams to be co-mingled, so that the `RtpReceiver` will need to maintain two jitter buffers and figure out when to switch between streams so that it can feed material to the decoder in a coherent way. This is not required when `sender.replaceTrack()` is called - the `RtpReceiver` only sees a single RTP stream, so it doesn't actually need to do anything special.  Saying that the `RtpReceiver` "stiches together" is wrong here - as wrong as saying that the `RtpReceiver` has to do anything when an SFU (which receives simulcast) switches between incoming RTP streams and provides the receiver with a single RTP stream.  

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