diff --git a/src/opt/opt_solver.cpp b/src/opt/opt_solver.cpp
index 88e81184fd..eb8b4dd6cb 100644
--- a/src/opt/opt_solver.cpp
+++ b/src/opt/opt_solver.cpp
@@ -342,24 +342,6 @@ namespace opt {
             return true;
         }
 
-        //
-        // A finite hint with a non-zero infinitesimal is a strict
-        // supremum/infimum (e.g. maximizing r subject to r < 1 yields
-        // 1 - epsilon).  No concrete model can attain such a value, and
-        // check_bound() below cannot validate it either: opt_solver::mk_ge
-        // drops the negative infinitesimal, turning the bound r >= 1 - epsilon
-        // into the unsatisfiable r >= 1.  Commit it eagerly here so that it is
-        // neither overwritten by the strictly smaller current model value in
-        // update_objective() nor lost when validation fails and this routine
-        // returns false (callers such as optsmt::geometric_lex then report
-        // m_objective_values as the optimum).  This restores the pre-#10028
-        // behavior for strict optima while leaving the plain-rational
-        // (zero-infinitesimal) over-estimates that #10028 fixed to the
-        // deferred-commit logic below.
-        //
-        if (val.is_finite() && !val.get_infinitesimal().is_zero() && val > m_objective_values[i])
-            m_objective_values[i] = val;
-
         //
         // retrieve value of objective from current model and update 
         // current optimal.