cmd/k8s-operator: fix a bunch of status equality checks (#14270)

Updates tailscale/tailscale#14269

Signed-off-by: Irbe Krumina <irbe@tailscale.com>

cmd/k8s-operator/proxygroup.go

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ func (r *ProxyGroupReconciler) Reconcile(ctx context.Context, req reconcile.Requ
 	oldPGStatus := pg.Status.DeepCopy()
 	setStatusReady := func(pg *tsapi.ProxyGroup, status metav1.ConditionStatus, reason, message string) (reconcile.Result, error) {
 		tsoperator.SetProxyGroupCondition(pg, tsapi.ProxyGroupReady, status, reason, message, pg.Generation, r.clock, logger)
-		if !apiequality.Semantic.DeepEqual(oldPGStatus, pg.Status) {
+		if !apiequality.Semantic.DeepEqual(oldPGStatus, &pg.Status) {
 			// An error encountered here should get returned by the Reconcile function.
 			if updateErr := r.Client.Status().Update(ctx, pg); updateErr != nil {
 				err = errors.Wrap(err, updateErr.Error())