Waiting on the 4.4 backport (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1815655) to be approved or closed.
Closing this out. The next minor release is in maintenance mode, this is low severity, and has a work around (use a dynamic client). (see https://github.com/openshift/client-go/pull/158#issuecomment-677956884)