Scrub instances of "you can" from style guide

What does this MR do?

As part of reviewing a MR for Zach, I noticed several instances of you can in the page he was working on. I went looking for the instructions for NOT to use that phrasing, because I wanted to include it in my review. It took me a moment to remember that the info was in the word list, and not on the main style guide page.

Then I started noticing instances of you can on the style guide page, and wondered how many there were. Answer: quite a few! We're subtly reinforcing the use of the you can phrasing by using it repeatedly in our style guide. This MR doesn't clean out 100% of the usage, but it tackles the majority of them.

extends: existence
message: "Avoid 'you can' - be concise."
link: https://docs.gitlab.com/development/documentation/styleguide/word_list/#you-can
level: warning
ignorecase: true
tokens:
  - "you can"

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Related to Adds 'you can' to Wordy.yml (!187383 - merged)

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Edited by Amy Qualls

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