The logic for CNPStatusUpdates/K8sEventHandover is spread all over the Cilium repository:

• operator has GC for node status updates
• agent needs to update statuses
• logic for migrating events from CRD to kvstore
• additional logic when policies are created/updated

Taking into account that:

• This feature puts significant performance/scalability limitations and should not even be used for debugging purposes.
• Is disabled by default since Cilium 1.8

I propose we deprecate it and remove it in 1,15 Cilium.