Sadly we can't get rid of the extra provider-aws-config Argo App :(

argocd/applications-eso/crossplane-provider-aws-config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# The ArgoCD Application for all Crossplane AWS providers incl. it's ProviderConfig
+---
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: provider-aws-config
+  namespace: argocd
+  finalizers:
+    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
+  annotations:
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "5"
+spec:
+  project: default
+  source:
+    repoURL: https://github.com/jonashackt/crossplane-argocd
+    targetRevision: HEAD
+    path: upbound/provider-aws/config-eos
+  destination:
+    namespace: default
+    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true    
+    retry:
+      limit: 5
+      backoff:
+        duration: 5s 
+        factor: 2 
+        maxDuration: 1m

argocd/applications-eso/crossplane-provider-aws.yaml

@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ spec:
     automated:
       prune: true    
     retry:
-      # Using limit 5, so that the ProviderConfig can "wait" (via retry) for the Provider and it's CRDs to be deployed
-      # and not to run into 'The Kubernetes API could not find aws.upbound.io/ProviderConfig for requested resource default/default.'
       limit: 5
       backoff:
         duration: 5s 

argocd/applications/crossplane-provider-aws-config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# The ArgoCD Application for all Crossplane AWS providers incl. it's ProviderConfig
+---
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: provider-aws-config
+  namespace: argocd
+  finalizers:
+    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
+  annotations:
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "3"
+spec:
+  project: default
+  source:
+    repoURL: https://github.com/jonashackt/crossplane-argocd
+    targetRevision: HEAD
+    path: upbound/provider-aws/config
+  destination:
+    namespace: default
+    server: https://kubernetes.default.svc
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true    
+    retry:
+      limit: 5
+      backoff:
+        duration: 5s 
+        factor: 2 
+        maxDuration: 1m

argocd/applications/crossplane-provider-aws.yaml

@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@ spec:
     automated:
       prune: true    
     retry:
-      # Using limit 5, so that the ProviderConfig can "wait" (via retry) for the Provider and it's CRDs to be deployed
-      # and not to run into 'The Kubernetes API could not find aws.upbound.io/ProviderConfig for requested resource default/default.'
       limit: 5
       backoff:
         duration: 5s