Customer set the clair component unmanaged but noticed HPA objects for clair was created. And as a result customer  is getting following event notifications:

quay-clair-app HPA object fires up the following event notification

deployments/scale.apps "clair-app" not found
ArgoCD will report the HPA as degraded.

What customer is asking that operator will smartly manage the HPA object by not creating hpa object if a component is unmanaged. 

For example:

if Clair is unmanaged , then no hpa for clair should be created but operator will create 3 hpa objects if  "horizontalpodautoscaler" component is set "True".   This is the default behaviour now.