[8.x] [ci] Don't start APM/Profiling cypress if pre-checks don&#…

…x27;t pass (#208569) (#208585)

# Backport

This will backport the following commits from `main` to `8.x`:
- [[ci] Don't start APM/Profiling cypress if pre-checks don't
pass (#208569)](#208569)

<!--- Backport version: 9.4.3 -->

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Co-authored-by: Alex Szabo <[email protected]>

.buildkite/pipelines/on_merge.yml

@@ -352,7 +352,6 @@ steps:
       provider: gcp
       machineType: n2-standard-4
       preemptible: true
-    depends_on: build
     timeout_in_minutes: 120
     parallelism: 3
     retry:
@@ -368,7 +367,6 @@ steps:
       provider: gcp
       machineType: n2-standard-4
       preemptible: true
-    depends_on: build
     timeout_in_minutes: 120
     parallelism: 3
     retry: