Improve create merge request dropdown reliability

What does this MR do and why?

Makes the create a merge request dropdown more reliable when creating a merge request. Instead of the frontend updating paths we send an API request to the create a merge request endpoint which returns a URL for the new merge request form.

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Closes #353694 (closed)