Developers are not allowed to create a protected branch

Summary

Developers are unable to create protected branches in the UI as outlined in the documentation here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.html#creating-a-protected-branch.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a maintainer or owner protect a wildcard branch and set Allowed to push to No one.
2. Developer is unable to create a protected branch that matches the wildcard.
3. Developer sees red banner with You are not allowed to create branches from this project
4. production_json.log show a 200 response

What is the current bug behavior?

Developers are not able to create protected branches in accordance with the documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.html#creating-a-protected-branch.

What is the expected correct behavior?

Developers should be able to create protected branches.

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

Customer ticket: https://gitlab.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/120302 (internal use)

I was able to reproduce this on 11.10.0

Seems to be a regression since the functionality was introduced in 11.9