Enforce instance-level MR approval settings

What does this MR do?

The original MR has been reverted as a precautionary measure of excessive Gitaly load observed on staging. We later confirmed that the underlining issues were not caused by this MR but rather existing performance issues with project-level merge request approval settings (see note).

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

• [-] Changelog entry
• Documentation (if required)
• Code review guidelines
• Merge request performance guidelines
• Style guides
• Database guides
• Separation of EE specific content

Availability and Testing

• Review and add/update tests for this feature/bug. Consider all test levels. See the Test Planning Process.
• Tested in all supported browsers
• [-] Informed Infrastructure department of a default or new setting change, if applicable per definition of done

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

• [-] Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
• [-] The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
• [-] Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team

Related to #273765 (closed)