Backport of "Resolve sidekiq spikes when a User is banned"
What does this MR do and why?
Banning a user via the API generated 2M+ Sidekiq jobs, caused production outages, and timed out at 60 seconds leaving users partially banned.
POST /api/v4/users/:id/block → user.block! → after_transition → run_after_commit → calls DropPipelinesAndDisableSchedulesForUserService synchronously within the same Rack request → walks all projects, enqueues thousands of DropPipelineWorker jobs → hits 60-second timeout, leaves user partially blocked.
The solution was merged in gitlab.com: !231018 (merged) Back porting as part of this issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/538338
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