Investigate improving the debugging experience

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The plugin architecture leads to having plugins running over RPC. While debugging the operator, it very often happens that a RPC requests times out (because the operator process is stopped for state inspection, for example) leading to plugins crashing or worse, the operator crashing. apimachinery PanicHandlers might be helpful here, as well as looking into increasing the time out time on go-plugin / rpc stack…