if !changeNeeded {
			log.Debugf("Pod %s update event skipped, no change needed", pod.Name)
			return nil
		}

		if !shouldBeEnabled {
			log.Debugf("Pod %s no longer matches, removing from mesh", newPod.Name)
			err := s.dataplane.RemovePodFromMesh(s.ctx, pod)
			log.Debugf("RemovePodFromMesh(%s) returned %v", newPod.Name, err)

	// beforehand.  CAUTION: we used to verify that the pod and container id were
	// descendants of a kubepods directory, however, as of Kubernetes 1.21, cgroups
	// namespaces are in use and therefore we can no longer discern if that is the
	// case from within SPIRE agent container (since the container itself is
	// namespaced). As such, the regex has been relaxed to simply find the pod UID

	}
	if err != nil {
		// not found
		return nil
	}
	// found
	res := ObjectToInstance(svc)
	messages.Add(msg.NewUpdateIncompatibility(res,
		"meshConfig.defaultConfig.tracer", "1.21",
		"tracing is no longer by default enabled to send to 'zipkin.istio-system.svc'; "+
			"follow https://istio.io/latest/docs/tasks/observability/distributed-tracing/telemetry-api/",
		"1.21"))
	return nil
}