Automatic merge from submit-queue (batch tested with PRs 60470, 59149, 56075, 60280, 60504). If you want to cherry-pick this change to another branch, please follow the instructions <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/cherry-picks.md">here</a>. Make Scale() for RC poll-based until #31345 is fixed Fixes https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56064 ,in the short-term until issue #31345 is fixed. We should eventually move RS, job, deployment, etc all to watch-based (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/56071) /cc @wojtek-t - SGTY? ```release-note NONE ```