adding public option, remove skip, and help text changes

[royendo]

Second iteration from #8364
due to lots of new changes in main :)

Checklist:

• Covered by tests
• Ran it and it works as intended
• Reviewed the diff before requesting a review
• Checked for unhandled edge cases
• Linked the issues it closes
• Checked if the docs need to be updated. If so, create a separate Linear DOCS issue
• Intend to cherry-pick into the release branch
• I'm proud of this work!

[royendo]

adding back skip for credentials based connectors, until we have connector detection baked in :)

[lovincyrus]

Added the fixes to #8467 @royendo