Previously the code was setup to not send a request to the backend if approvals is setup, this changes that by always sending this request (like it should). & then after getting & replacing the HTML the Vue app re-compiles itself.
This fixes a bug that was stopping certain merge requests from changing content away from 'Checking ability to merge automatically' check https://gitlab.com/issue-reproduce/persistent-mr-spinners/merge_requests/1 to see the bug in action.