component: pipeline: Refactor direction testing in pipeline propagation #8620
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[Split out from https://github.com//pull/8571 for separate review]
Clean up some cut/paste code that had spread around, replacing it with a simpler "comp_same_dir()" predicate. No behavioral changes, just refactoring.
Also remove the big comment that was repeated in triplicate. It explained this as error handling (i.e. it must be broken topology from which we want to recover), but in fact cross-pipeline widget connections in modern SOF do run in opposite directions (c.f. echo cancellation, which need to look at the output stream to process microphone input, or smart amp devices that do the reverse).
So just explain it as policy: we don't propagate across opposite-direction pipelines, period. Usages that need them need to manage their pipeline lifecycles manually.