+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1813919 +++

Description of problem: reviewing recent upgrade failures I observed
```
Mar 14 04:38:32.591 I ns/openshift-apiserver-operator deployment/openshift-apiserver-operator Updated storage urls to https://10.0.0.3:2379,https://10.0.0.4:2379,https://10.0.0.5:2379 (3001 times)
```

ref: https://storage.googleapis.com/origin-ci-test/pr-logs/pull/openshift_cluster-etcd-operator/257/pull-ci-openshift-cluster-etcd-operator-master-e2e-gcp-upgrade/1147/artifacts/e2e-gcp-upgrade/e2e.log

I would expect this to change very infrequently.

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Expected results: backend reported by the observer is stable based on the actual client list not hot looping.


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