Description of problem: Unable to apply upgrade from 4.3 -> 4.4 as sample  operator is stuck in progressing state

Error message: Upgrade to 4.4.14 fails to progress with error message "Unable to apply 4.4.14: the cluster operator openshift-samples has not yet successfully rolled out"

$ oc get clusterversion
NAME     VERSION  AVAILABLE  PROGRESSING  SINCE  STATUS
version           True       True         24m    Unable to apply 4.4.14: the cluster operator openshift-samples has not yet successfully rolled out


$ oc get co/openshift-samples -o yaml
  
- lastTransitionTime: '2020-08-04T17:32:09Z'
    message: Samples installation successful at 4.4.13
    status: 'True'
    type: Available
  - lastTransitionTime: '2020-08-04T17:32:09Z'
    message: Samples processing to 4.4.14
    status: 'True'
    type: Progressing
  - lastTransitionTime: '2020-08-04T17:32:09Z'
    status: 'False'
    type: Degraded

$ oc logs cluster-samples-operator-66696f94cb-q7v9c -n openshift-cluster-samples-operator -c cluster-samples-operator

2020-08-24T18:06:04.740824079Z time="2020-08-24T18:06:04Z" level=info msg="aborting progress check (post-cache) for rhpam-businesscentral-monitoring-rhel8 because it has been removed from the image progress and import error conditions"
2020-08-24T18:06:04.740868888Z time="2020-08-24T18:06:04Z" level=info msg="Imagestream rhpam-businesscentral-rhel8 watch event do upsert false; no errors in prep true,  possibly update operator conditions true"
2020-08-24T18:06:04.740885863Z time="2020-08-24T18:06:04Z" level=info msg="aborting progress check (post-cache) for rhpam-businesscentral-rhel8 because it has been removed from the image progress and import error conditions"
2020-08-24T18:06:04.74093467Z time="2020-08-24T18:06:04Z" level=info msg="Imagestream rhpam-kieserver-rhel8 watch event do upsert false; no errors in prep true,  possibly update operator conditions true"