Fix scripts/update_team_yml

Why is this change being made?

Our logic had an error and didn't check whether a branch exists, but whether it didn't exist and therefore didn't execute.

Furthermore a git fetch is rather expensive, so we switch to using the API instead to check whether an update branch still exists.

See: #10507 (closed)

Author Checklist

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