After some deliberation with the team, we've come to the conclusion that this is a backwards compatibility and/or docs issue with SDK. - https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/issues/4439 - https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk/issues/4438 It makes sense for OLM to switch to the new location -- while still supporting the old -- in master and for new releases, but any attempt to backport a patch would amount to supporting forwards compatibility with SDK; something that doesn't seem feasible overall. Additionally, this low priority bug has two distinct workarounds at the operator author scope.