Looking at the code I think we wouldn't catch that currently because according to current implementation: if the version doesn't exist, the no comparison is made and it proceeds to writing current executable's version to the file

https://github.com/openshift/microshift/blob/928d4f3a6ec051a78f2d0de3f11c52d2c1d827ef/pkg/admin/prerun/version.go#L36