This bug is to establish the current-version OCP downstream as an OCPBUGS anchor issue for backporting.

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Jira Description

We need to downstream this PR to OCP 4.13 and backport it to OCP 4.12 so that users of OCP 4.12 and 4.13 get the functionality and bug-fixes of Operator-SDK v1.25.1

Acceptance Criteria

The changes in the PR are available for OCP 4.12 and 4.13

Definition of Ready

PRs merged into downstream OCP repos branches 4.12/4.13

Definition of Done

The downstream images are verified as having the changes applied and the cluster can be scaled down successfully.