Flake. Patch instead of update to avoid conflict.

[david-martin]

Example of failure https://github.com/Kuadrant/kuadrant-operator/actions/runs/16468002376/job/46550078139

  [FAILED] Expected success, but got an error:
      <*errors.StatusError | 0xc0003f45a0>: 
      Operation cannot be fulfilled on kuadrants.kuadrant.io "kuadrant-sample": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again
      {
          ErrStatus: {
              TypeMeta: {Kind: "", APIVersion: ""},
              ListMeta: {
                  SelfLink: "",
                  ResourceVersion: "",
                  Continue: "",
                  RemainingItemCount: nil,
              },
              Status: "Failure",
              Message: "Operation cannot be fulfilled on kuadrants.kuadrant.io \"kuadrant-sample\": the object has been modified; please apply your changes to the latest version and try again",
              Reason: "Conflict",
              Details: {
                  Name: "kuadrant-sample",
                  Group: "kuadrant.io",
                  Kind: "kuadrants",
                  UID: "",
                  Causes: nil,
                  RetryAfterSeconds: 0,
              },
              Code: 409,
          },
      }
  In [BeforeEach] at: /home/runner/work/kuadrant-operator/kuadrant-operator/tests/istio/limitador_istio_integration_reconciler_test.go:160 @ 07/23/25 10:34:20.309

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 75.13%. Comparing base (49b1ba5) to head (959a630).
Report is 20 commits behind head on main.

Additional details and impacted files

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- Coverage   77.58%   75.13%   -2.46%     
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  Files         101      102       +1     
  Lines       10075    10145      +70     
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- Hits         7817     7622     -195     
- Misses       1934     2200     +266     
+ Partials      324      323       -1     

Flag	Coverage Δ
bare-k8s-integration	20.67% <ø> (-0.25%)	⬇️
controllers-integration	59.78% <ø> (-0.35%)	⬇️
envoygateway-integration	34.85% <ø> (+0.03%)	⬆️
gatewayapi-integration	16.70% <ø> (-0.25%)	⬇️
istio-integration	45.76% <ø> (-0.28%)	⬇️
unit	21.50% <ø> (-2.19%)	⬇️

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Components	Coverage Δ
api (u)	74.40% <100.00%> (ø)
internal (u)	77.40% <91.42%> (-2.45%)	⬇️
pkg (u)	34.33% <ø> (-8.37%)	⬇️

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