Robustness refactor patch operations

[serathius]

First stage for #18772

We clean up the patchOperations functions to be simpler and use switch allowing support for other commands.

cc @ah8ad3 @ahrtr @MadhavJivrajani @henrybear327 @siyuanfoundation @jmhbnz

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[jmhbnz]

LGTM - Many thanks for breaking this into both smaller commits and separate pr's @serathius it was much easier to review compared to the full initial pr we stepped through at KubeCon.

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