diff --git a/src/tasks/pod-tasks.ts b/src/tasks/pod-tasks.ts
index 27d932925..076711aa0 100644
--- a/src/tasks/pod-tasks.ts
+++ b/src/tasks/pod-tasks.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2024 Red Hat, Inc.
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made
  * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
  * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import {KubeClient} from '../api/kube-client'
 import {KubeHelperContext} from '../context'
 import {EclipseChe} from './installers/eclipse-che/eclipse-che'
 import {newListr} from '../utils/utls'
-import {Che} from '../utils/che'
 
 export namespace PodTasks {
   interface FailState {
@@ -83,7 +82,7 @@ export namespace PodTasks {
         const tasks = newListr([])
         tasks.add(getSchedulingTask(selector, namespace))
         tasks.add(getDownloadingTask(selector, namespace))
-        if (name === EclipseChe.PLUGIN_REGISTRY && await Che.isEmbeddedOpenVSXRegistryConfigured(namespace)) {
+        if (name === EclipseChe.PLUGIN_REGISTRY) {
           // if embedded plugin registry is configured, use longer timeout for pod readiness
           tasks.add(getStartingTask(selector, namespace, ctx[KubeHelperContext.POD_READY_TIMEOUT_EMBEDDED_PLUGIN_REGISTRY]))
         } else {
diff --git a/src/utils/che.ts b/src/utils/che.ts
index 6774584b5..4460e59a5 100644
--- a/src/utils/che.ts
+++ b/src/utils/che.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright (c) 2019-2022 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (c) 2019-2024 Red Hat, Inc.
  * This program and the accompanying materials are made
  * available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0
  * which is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
@@ -134,11 +134,4 @@ export namespace Che {
 
     throw new Error(`Route ${EclipseChe.CHE_FLAVOR} not found`)
   }
-
-  export async function isEmbeddedOpenVSXRegistryConfigured(namespace: string): Promise<boolean> {
-    const kubeClient = KubeClient.getInstance()
-    const cheCluster = await kubeClient.getCheCluster(namespace)
-
-    return !cheCluster?.spec?.components?.pluginRegistry?.openVSXURL
-  }
 }
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 2f44b9252..8bee9c822 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -3673,7 +3673,7 @@ detect-newline@^3.0.0:
 
 "devworkspace-operator@https://github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator#main":
   version "0.0.0"
-  resolved "https://github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator#067847d900c18a3fe0d47de920a9ce77af29e722"
+  resolved "https://github.com/devfile/devworkspace-operator#b49427cecf4ba036a7587be4e7319b4dfec42dcf"
 
 dezalgo@^1.0.0:
   version "1.0.4"
@@ -3734,7 +3734,7 @@ ecc-jsbn@~0.1.1:
 
 "eclipse-che-operator@https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-operator#main":
   version "0.0.0"
-  resolved "https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-operator#903ad387e047129ad0053a641a590fd12411f34e"
+  resolved "https://github.com/eclipse-che/che-operator#9954335646e7043632cdb992f6c155888f0cee2c"
 
 editorconfig@^0.15.0:
   version "0.15.3"