Currently: Hypershift is squashing any user configured proxy configuration based on this line: https://github.com/openshift/hypershift/blob/main/support/globalconfig/proxy.go#L21-L28, https://github.com/openshift/hypershift/blob/release-4.11/control-plane-operator/hostedclusterconfigoperator/controllers/resources/resources.go#L487-L493. Because of this any user changes to the cluster-wide proxy configuration documented here: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/networking/enable-cluster-wide-proxy.html are squashed and not valid for more than a few seconds. That blocks some functionality in the openshift cluster from working including application builds from the openshift samples provided in the cluster. 

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1. Make a change to the Proxy object in the cluster with kubectl edit proxy cluster
2. Save the change
3. Wait a few seconds

HostedClusterConfig operator will go in and squash the value

The value the user provides remains in the configuration and is not squashed to an empty value