Remove approvals_before_merge column

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The follow-up to #353094.

The approvals_before_merge field has been made redundant within:

• Issue: #11132 (closed) (closed).
• Merge request: !16121 (merged) (merged)

Within this issue, we should remove the column, which is the second step of the 3-release approach of column removal