Merge branch '456535-onboarding-update-should-not-raise' into 'master'

Onboarding progress updates should not raise on failure

Closes #456535

See merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/161184



Merged-by: Sashi Kumar Kumaresan <skumar@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Shabini Rajadas <srajadas@gitlab.com>
Approved-by: Sashi Kumar Kumaresan <skumar@gitlab.com>
Co-authored-by: david hamp-gonsalves <dhamp-gonsalves@gitlab.com>