Origin discussion: https://coreos.slack.com/archives/CTZTHFQRH/p1663650424364439

When Labels or Taints are configured in the MachinePool CR, the controller currently completely overrides any existing Label or Taints configurations on the MachineSet CRs.  Therefore, if a user had directly applied any customized Label or Taint configuration it will be wiped at the next reconcile loop of the controller; this may lead to some confusing behavior like in the origin Slack discussion.

This would be an enhancement for Hive to support a merge strategy to apply the configured Labels/Taints in the MachinePool CR without completely replacing any directly applied changes on the MachineSet Label/Taint configurations.

https://github.com/openshift/hive/blob/master/pkg/controller/machinepool/machinepool_controller.go#L454-L461

https://github.com/openshift/hive/blob/master/pkg/controller/machinepool/machinepool_controller.go#L584-L598