Revert "Merge branch '58010-mask-the-existing-variables' into 'master'"

What does this MR do?

CE port of revert of breaking changes in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/merge_requests/9923 from https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/25868

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