diff --git a/.changeset/great-bears-watch.md b/.changeset/great-bears-watch.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ced76bad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/great-bears-watch.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+'astro': patch
+---
+
+Revert fix #8472
+
+[#8472](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/8472) caused some style files from previous pages to not be cleanly deleted on view transitions. For a discussion of a future fix for the original issue [#8144](https://github.com/withastro/astro/issues/8114) see [#8745](https://github.com/withastro/astro/pull/8745). 
+
+
diff --git a/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js b/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
index 31e3128f5..f8bbad1cd 100644
--- a/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
+++ b/packages/astro/e2e/view-transitions.test.js
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ test.describe('View Transitions', () => {
 		expect(loads.length, 'There should be 2 page loads').toEqual(2);
 	});
 
-	test('client:only styles are retained on transition', async ({ page, astro }) => {
+	test.skip('client:only styles are retained on transition', async ({ page, astro }) => {
 		const totalExpectedStyles = 7;
 
 		// Go to page 1
diff --git a/packages/astro/src/transitions/router.ts b/packages/astro/src/transitions/router.ts
index 1049f92d1..e4dc9d52d 100644
--- a/packages/astro/src/transitions/router.ts
+++ b/packages/astro/src/transitions/router.ts
@@ -42,11 +42,6 @@ const announce = () => {
 };
 const PERSIST_ATTR = 'data-astro-transition-persist';
 const parser = new DOMParser();
-// explained at its usage
-let noopEl: HTMLDivElement;
-if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
-	noopEl = document.createElement('div');
-}
 
 // The History API does not tell you if navigation is forward or back, so
 // you can figure it using an index. On pushState the index is incremented so you
@@ -198,22 +193,6 @@ async function updateDOM(
 			const href = el.getAttribute('href');
 			return newDocument.head.querySelector(`link[rel=stylesheet][href="${href}"]`);
 		}
-		// What follows is a fix for an issue (#8472) with missing client:only styles after transition.
-		// That problem exists only in dev mode where styles are injected into the page by Vite.
-		// Returning a noop element ensures that the styles are not removed from the old document.
-		// Guarding the code below with the dev mode check
-		// allows tree shaking to remove this code in production.
-		if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
-			if (el.tagName === 'STYLE' && el.dataset.viteDevId) {
-				const devId = el.dataset.viteDevId;
-				// If this same style tag exists, remove it from the new page
-				return (
-					newDocument.querySelector(`style[data-vite-dev-id="${devId}"]`) ||
-					// Otherwise, keep it anyways. This is client:only styles.
-					noopEl
-				);
-			}
-		}
 		return null;
 	};