Limit modifications to the event payload

[yakkomajuri]

Our ingestion pipeline currently overwrites, deletes, and updates values in the event payload before ingestion, such as $elements.

This makes things confusing, hard to debug, and potentially detrimental to exports, as the stored payload doesn't match the payload we accept as input.

An example of this is how we expect $elements to contain properties such as attr__class, which we convert to attr_class. However, if you send attr_class in the payload, we don't accept it :D

[yakkomajuri]

#4448 is something that would also help tangentially

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