Add comments explaining why we don't make `<img>`s responsive by default

Refs #18178

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diff --git a/scss/_images.scss b/scss/_images.scss
index eb7b4ce18..4f1ce6507 100644
--- a/scss/_images.scss
+++ b/scss/_images.scss
@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 // Responsive images (ensure images don't scale beyond their parents)
+//
+// This is purposefully opt-in via an explicit class rather than being the default for all `<img>`s.
+// We previously tried the "images are responsive by default" approach in Bootstrap v2,
+// and abandoned it in Bootstrap v3 because it breaks lots of third-party widgets (including Google Maps)
+// which weren't expecting the images within themselves to be involuntarily resized.
+// See also https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/18178
 .img-fluid {
   @include img-fluid();
 }