What happened:
In our cluster, I noticed that a change to the pod's finalizer was reverted when Kueue attempted to remove its own finalizer. I found we are using non-strict mode patch

What you expected to happen:
Kueue should not overwrite other changes to the finalizer.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Create a pod with finalizers in addition to Kueue's finalizer. However, this issue doesn't always occur.

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