If the change is to a Kubernetes field (such as modifying a Deployment attribute), it will likely need to be install-time configuration.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean a PR to add a value will be accepted.
The `values.yaml` API is intended to maintain a *minimal core set of configuration* that most users will use.

message ExtraValue {
  // items, if empty, will result in an empty slice

  repeated string items = 1;
}

// SelfSubjectReview contains the user information that the kube-apiserver has about the user making this request.
// When using impersonation, users will receive the user info of the user being impersonated.  If impersonation or
// request header authentication is used, any extra keys will have their case ignored and returned as lowercase.

  // and notAfter fields in the issued certificate to determine the actual duration.
  //
  // The v1.22+ in-tree implementations of the well-known Kubernetes signers will
  // honor this field as long as the requested duration is not greater than the
  // maximum duration they will honor per the --cluster-signing-duration CLI
  // flag to the Kubernetes controller manager.
  //
  // Certificate signers may not honor this field for various reasons:

  // MutatingAdmissionWebhook and ValidatingAdmissionWebhook admission controller will prefix the keys with
  // admission webhook name (e.g. imagepolicy.example.com/error=image-blacklisted). AuditAnnotations will be provided by
  // the admission webhook to add additional context to the audit log for this request.
  // +optional
  map<string, string> auditAnnotations = 6;

  // implementation will use to handle pods of this class. The possible values
  // are specific to the node & CRI configuration.  It is assumed that all
  // handlers are available on every node, and handlers of the same name are
  // equivalent on every node.
  // For example, a handler called "runc" might specify that the runc OCI
  // runtime (using native Linux containers) will be used to run the containers
  // in a pod.

# This version is from commit 86c4972a9f5f245cfb382c8e1e95f176d968c882.
FROM ${ISTIO_BASE_REGISTRY}/iptables@sha256:863a23b9b2d6f3f282e651fb62a47d28a7bd19356839367654254f5677cea6fa as distroless

# This will build the final image based on either debug or distroless from above
# hadolint ignore=DL3006
FROM ${BASE_DISTRIBUTION:-debug}

LABEL description="Istio CNI plugin installer."

ARG TARGETARCH

  // Only one PriorityClass can be marked as `globalDefault`. However, if more than
  // one PriorityClasses exists with their `globalDefault` field set to true,
  // the smallest value of such global default PriorityClasses will be used as the default priority.
  // +optional
  optional bool globalDefault = 3;

  // description is an arbitrary string that usually provides guidelines on
  // when this priority class should be used.
  // +optional

  // Label query over pods whose evictions are managed by the disruption
  // budget.
  // A null selector will match no pods, while an empty ({}) selector will select
  // all pods within the namespace.
  // +patchStrategy=replace
  // +optional
  optional k8s.io.apimachinery.pkg.apis.meta.v1.LabelSelector selector = 2;

  // An eviction is allowed if at most "maxUnavailable" pods selected by

## Feature implementation

Release managers will continue to have a final say in what gets merged or not, unless directed by the TOC. See the next
section if the implementation is done, but a bug is being addressed.

* Any code that changes feature functionality must be done within 2 weeks of the release branch cutting. Even then it is
 at the discretion of the release managers if PRs will be accepted and merged into the release branch.

`istio-system`. The new components will not interfere with existing apps, but can interoperate,
and it is possible to gradually move apps from Istio 1.0/1.1 to the new environments and
across environments ( for example canary -> prod )

Note: there are still some cluster roles that may need to be fixed, most likely cluster permissions
will need to move to the security component.

## Everything is Optional