A secondary goal was to enable a smoother on-ramp from "Zero" to "Getting some value".
Historically, Istio had to really be consumed all-or-nothing for things to work as expected.
In particular, an easy answer to "I just want to have mTLS everywhere, then I can think about adopting the rest of service mesh" was desired.

## Goals

			iop, err := operatoristio.UnmarshalIstioOperator(by, false)
			if err != nil {
				return nil, err
			}
			return nil, operatorvalidate.CheckIstioOperator(iop, true)
		}
	}

	// Didn't really validate.  This is OK, as we often get non-Istio Kubernetes YAML
	// we can't complain about.

	return nil, nil
}

          - "!$test"
          # Main code should only be used by appropriate binaries
          - "!**/operator/**"
          - "!**/istioctl/**"
          - "!**/tools/bug-report/**"
          # This should only really import operator API, but that is hard to express without a larger refactoring
          - "!**/pkg/kube/**"
          - "!**/pkg/url/**"
          - "!**/pkg/test/framework/**"
          - "!**/tests/fuzz/**"