What does this MR do and why?

Possibly helping to mitigate: #362734 (closed) by decoupling a possible root cause

I think it could be a connectivity issue, especially since it is only on one environment, but I'm curious why the successfully created project might be returning 404's fetching.

It doesn't seem to be happening for other tests that create projects, so maybe it has to do with creating a project with templates?

As I commented in Slack: I think we could remove that template from those npm scenarios. That second project doesn't need to be created from a template. An empty one should work too.

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