fix: user updatedAt modified during session operations

[PatrikKozak]

What?

The updatedAt field on user documents was being updated whenever session operations occurred (login, logout, or token refresh), even though only session metadata was changing and not the actual user data itself.

Why?

This behavior was introduced in PR #13335, which added explicit updatedAt = new Date().toISOString() to all session operations to ensure that updatedAt would always be bumped when using payload.db.updateOne().

However, this was incorrect for session operations specifically. The updatedAt timestamp should only change when the user's actual data (email, password, profile fields, etc.) is modified - not when internal session tracking metadata changes. Session management is essentially bookkeeping and shouldn't trigger timestamp updates that suggest the user entity itself was modified.

How?

Modified session operations to set updatedAt = null instead of updating it:

• addSessionToUser() in packages/payload/src/auth/sessions.ts
• logoutOperation() in packages/payload/src/auth/operations/logout.ts
• refreshOperation() in packages/payload/src/auth/operations/refresh.ts

Setting updatedAt = null skips updating this field entirely, leaving the existing timestamp unchanged.

Fixes #13626

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