[macOS] Eliminate flutter_gallery_macos__start_up benchmark (#147442)

The macOS devicelab machines are not physically configured for benchmarking at a 60 Hz refresh rate. With Flutter vsync wired up via CVDisplayLink (rather than a hardcoded 60 Hz rate as previously), the bot shows 0 monitors configured and syncs at 30 Hz. This is not a meaningful target to measure against but consumes devicelab CPU cycles.

Given that there is currently no plan in place to acquire and configure a consistent pool of physical benchmarking desktop machines, disabling this test to reduce load on the bots.

See https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/51210 for a discussion of the decision to move forward with wiring up vsync from macOS and ignore this benchmark.

For future archaeologists, I don't think it's worth removing all the plumbing in the Dart code (in [dev/devicelab/lib/tasks/perf_tests.dart](9d47055640/dev/devicelab/lib/tasks/perf_tests.dart (L963))) that supports running this benchmark on macOS. If we ever acquire hardware suitable for benchmarking with the appropriate HDMI dongle to simulate a 60Hz 4k display, for example, it would be reasonable to re-enable this benchmark.
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task_name: flutter_gallery_macos__compile
- name: Mac_benchmark flutter_gallery_macos__start_up
presubmit: false
recipe: devicelab/devicelab_drone
timeout: 60
properties:
dependencies: >-
[
{"dependency": "ruby", "version": "ruby_3.1-pod_1.13"}
]
task_name: flutter_gallery_macos__start_up
- name: Mac flutter_packaging_test
recipe: packaging/packaging
presubmit: false