Fixed issues with uninstallation process - cherry-pick to 3.27

[sridhartigera]

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[danudey]

Cherry-pick of #8413

[pfrydids]

Was hoping this would be fixed with the cherry pick but I am left with

calico-system       calico-typha-69cfd4c97-jgj5x                         1/1     Running   0          42m
calico-system       calico-typha-69cfd4c97-qk7jl                         1/1     Running   0          43m
default             tigera-operator-f598ffdfb-sggfw                      1/1     Running   0          44m
default             tigera-operator-uninstall-hwxhl                      1/1     Running   0          4m50s

after an uninstall.