OSSM: SMCP v2.5.0 upgrade/install hangs with istiod in CrashLoopBackOf

Issue

• Upgrading the smcp to .spec.version:v2.5 causes istiod to be in CrashLoopBackOff
• Errors are of the general form

{"level":"error","time":"2024-04-03T22:01:46.265463Z","scope":"kube","msg":"failed to create informer for certificates.k8s.io/v1/CertificateSigningRequest: no informer found for certificates.k8s.io/v1, Resource=certificatesigningrequests","controller":"a
nalysis-controller"}
{"level":"error","time":"2024-04-03T22:01:46.265691Z","scope":"kube","msg":"failed to create informer for core/v1/EndpointSlice: no informer found for /v1, Resource=endpointslices","controller":"analysis-controller"}
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x18 pc=0x48a4e52]

goroutine 143 [running]:
istio.io/istio/pilot/pkg/config/kube/crdclient.handleCRDAdd(0xc0007cba40, {0xc000d23050, 0x24})
        /remote-source/istio/app/pilot/pkg/config/kube/crdclient/client.go:450 +0x6d2
istio.io/istio/pilot/pkg/config/kube/crdclient.NewForSchemas({0x5f73300, 0xc0013ced00}, {{0xc00007c029, 0x5}, {0x7fffef5baed9, 0xd}, {0x588000a, 0x13}, 0x0, 0x0}, ...)
        /remote-source/istio/app/pilot/pkg/config/kube/crdclient/client.go:189 +0xa33
istio.io/istio/pkg/config/analysis/incluster.NewController(0x87a6e40?, {0x5f579b8?, 0xc001221830}, {0x5f73300, 0xc0013ced00}, {0xc00007c029, 0x5}, {0xc0000840ce, 0xc}, 0xc000480560, ...)
        /remote-source/istio/app/pkg/config/analysis/incluster/controller.go:53 +0x3b1
istio.io/istio/pilot/pkg/bootstrap.(*Server).initInprocessAnalysisController.func1.1(0xc00023e910?)
        /remote-source/istio/app/pilot/pkg/bootstrap/configcontroller.go:318 +0xe5
created by istio.io/istio/pilot/pkg/leaderelection.(*LeaderElection).create.func1
        /remote-source/istio/app/pilot/pkg/leaderelection/leaderelection.go:141 +0xb8