KafkaUsers do not show any ready state when there is no authorization type on the cluster CR

With Strimzi 0.26+

Creating a Kafkas cluster, pretty much like: https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/blob/main/examples/kafka/kafka-ephemeral.yaml

And than adding a user, pretty much like:

apiVersion: kafka.strimzi.io/v1beta2
kind: KafkaUser
metadata:
  name: my-tls-user
  labels:
    strimzi.io/cluster: my-cluster
spec:
  authentication:
    type: tls
  authorization:
    type: simple
    acls:
      - resource:
          type: topic
          name: "*"
        operation: Read
        host: "*"
      - resource:
          type: topic
          name: "*"
        operation: Describe
        host: "*"
      - resource:
          type: group
          name: "*"
        operation: Read
        host: "*"
      - resource:
          type: topic
          name: "*"
        operation: Write
        host: "*"
      - resource:
          type: topic
          name: "*"
        operation: Create
        host: "*"
      - resource:
          type: topic
          name: "*"
        operation: Describe
        host: "*"

The user does not render any READY state - they stay idle (I know the cluster is not setup for this):

k get kafkausers.kafka.strimzi.io -A 
NAMESPACE   NAME          CLUSTER      AUTHENTICATION   AUTHORIZATION   READY
default     my-tls-user   my-cluster   tls              simple          
➜  ~ 

Given that the cluster is not correct configured, and lacks the authorization type, I was expecting those users turn into READY:FALSE, also with a reason on the why it is not ready.

E.g. like:

    - name: Reason
      type: string
      jsonPath: ".status.conditions[?(@.type==\"Ready\")].reason"

on the additionalPrinterColumns section

[scholzj]

Well, I don’t know if I would call it better. But if you feel it helps we can easily implement it. Changing the conditions on the other hand would not be easy as they are also part of the API.

[scholzj]

Triaged on 7.6.2022: We do not want to add the additional column. But a better docs explaining this should be done. Should be kept open.