fix incomplete startup of informers + broken scale down #6122
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What type of PR is this?
/kind bug
What this PR does / why we need it:
Previously, SharedInformerFactory.Start was called before core.NewAutoscaler. That had the effect that any new informer created as part of core.NewAutoscaler, in particular in kubernetes.NewListerRegistryWithDefaultListers, never got started.
One of them was the DaemonSet informer. This had the effect that the DaemonSet lister had an empty cache and scale down failed with:
Special notes for your reviewer:
This was on a GKE cluster with cluster-autoscaler running outside of the cluster on a development machine. I have no idea which "real" deployments of cluster-autoscaler might be affected by this.
Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?