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Settings explorer is incomprehensible, and changing settings doesn't appear to work
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
I was excited to discover the settings explorer, but sadly I couldn't make it work.
1. Open dev tools
3. Click "Settings explorer"
4. Search for and open a setting, such as `debug_scroll_panel`
5. Click "Edit values"
6. Observe. Be confused:
7. In "Values at explicit levels", change `"device": null` to `"device": true`,
8. Click "Save setting values"
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
The setting to have changed
#### What happened instead?
Nothing, afaict.
Furthermore, I really don't understand that UI:
* What is the difference between `room-device` level, and `device` level but "Settable at room"? (I don't really understand the words "Settable at room" anyway, but presumably it means something like "Settable for a specific room"?)
* Why are "default" values shown in the "values at explicit levels" writeables?
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### Browser information
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### URL for webapp
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### Application version
Element version: 1.11.105-dev
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### Will you send logs?
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