MNT remove merge=union gitattributes for whats_new files #23062
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Close #21516.
As noted in #21516 this does not seem that useful in practice (there are still conflicts to fix for users because Github has not implemented it: #21516 (comment)) and cause caveats creating duplicated or weirdly ordered whats_new entries.