feature: Limit "Failed to create symlink to 'meltano.exe'" warning on Windows

### Feature scope

CLI (options, error messages, logging, etc.)

### Description

Any time a non-administrator user runs any meltano command on Windows, the warning below appears.

> 2025-01-21T17:44:43.696439Z [warning  ] Failed to create symlink to 'meltano.exe': administrator privilege required

https://github.com/meltano/meltano/blob/82ff2fb17efa635bb25135840472cb361fc05875/src/meltano/core/project.py#L209-L226

In my experience, the inability to create the symlink does not affect the users ability to use the meltano CLI. It would be nice to limit how this is shown because it implies there are a serious issue but provides no resolution steps.

Possible solutions:
- Set it to log at DEBUG instead of WARNING
- Provide a config to suppress the warning that is referenced in the warning
- Other?

	try:
	# check if running on Windows
	if os.name == "nt":
	executable = Path(sys.executable).parent / "meltano.exe"
	# Admin privileges are required to create symlinks on Windows
	if ctypes.windll.shell32.IsUserAnAdmin(): # type: ignore[attr-defined]
	if executable.is_file():
	project.run_dir().joinpath("bin").symlink_to(executable)
	else:
	logger.warning(
	"Could not create symlink: meltano.exe not " # noqa: G004
	f"present in {Path(sys.executable).parent!s}",
	)
	else:
	logger.warning(
	"Failed to create symlink to 'meltano.exe': "
	"administrator privilege required",
	)

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feature: Limit "Failed to create symlink to 'meltano.exe'" warning on Windows #9039

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