@JRBANCEL From the WG meeting discussion a suggested approach could be:

1. Make /var/log optional in the runtime contract
2. Instead of dropping support in the upstream we change the behaviour to:
   2.1 When /var/log collection is enabled by the operator we keep the same behaviour as is
   2.2 When /var/log collection is disabled by the operator we do not mount the read/writable /var/log volume
   2.2 We can still drop the queue proxy logic with the subpath expression but it'll require changes to the monitoring bundle (ie. the regex)

For 2.1 we could also move the logic to add the volumes to a webhook

Originally posted by @dprotaso in #7751 (comment)