diff --git a/pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go b/pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go
index c3cbdf7e82ea..a54a7efb9955 100644
--- a/pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go
+++ b/pkg/monitortests/clusterversionoperator/legacycvomonitortests/operators.go
@@ -95,9 +95,6 @@ func testStableSystemOperatorStateTransitions(events monitorapi.Intervals, clien
 					return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-20056"
 				}
 			}
-			if operator == "image-registry" {
-				return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-66213"
-			}
 			if operator == "openshift-apiserver" &&
 				(condition.Reason == "APIServerDeployment_NoDeployment" ||
 					condition.Reason == "APIServerDeployment_NoPod" ||
@@ -414,22 +411,13 @@ func testUpgradeOperatorStateTransitions(events monitorapi.Intervals, clientConf
 				return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-23744"
 			}
 		case "image-registry":
-			if condition.Type == configv1.OperatorDegraded &&
-				condition.Status == configv1.ConditionTrue &&
-				(condition.Reason == "NodeCADaemonControllerError" ||
-					condition.Reason == "ProgressDeadlineExceeded" ||
-					condition.Reason == "ImageConfigControllerError" ||
-					condition.Reason == "Unavailable") {
-				return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-66225"
-			}
 			// this won't handle the replicaCount==2 serial test where both pods are on nodes that get tainted.
 			// need to consider how we detect that or modify the job to set replicaCount==3
 			if condition.Type == configv1.OperatorAvailable && condition.Status == configv1.ConditionFalse {
-				vsphere, _ := isVSphere(clientConfig)
-				if vsphere {
-					if replicaCount, _ := checkReplicas("openshift-image-registry", operator, clientConfig); replicaCount == 1 {
-						return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-22382"
-					}
+				// image-registry can become unavailable when it only has one replica, this is expected behavior
+				// and the linked OCPBUGS ticket is closed as won't fix.
+				if replicaCount, _ := checkReplicas("openshift-image-registry", operator, clientConfig); replicaCount == 1 {
+					return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-22382"
 				}
 			}
 		case "dns":
@@ -474,18 +462,6 @@ func testUpgradeOperatorStateTransitions(events monitorapi.Intervals, clientConf
 	return testOperatorStateTransitions(events, []configv1.ClusterStatusConditionType{configv1.OperatorAvailable, configv1.OperatorDegraded}, except, clientConfig, true)
 }
 
-func isVSphere(config *rest.Config) (bool, error) {
-	client, err := clientconfigv1.NewForConfig(config)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-	infra, err := client.Infrastructures().Get(context.Background(), "cluster", metav1.GetOptions{})
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-	return infra.Status.PlatformStatus != nil && infra.Status.PlatformStatus.Type == configv1.VSpherePlatformType, nil
-}
-
 func checkReplicas(namespace string, operator string, clientConfig *rest.Config) (int32, error) {
 	kubeClient, err := kubernetes.NewForConfig(clientConfig)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -749,10 +725,6 @@ func testUpgradeOperatorProgressingStateTransitions(events monitorapi.Intervals,
 			if reason == "DNSReportsProgressingIsTrue" {
 				return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-62623"
 			}
-		case "image-registry":
-			if reason == "NodeCADaemonUnavailable::Ready" || reason == "DeploymentNotCompleted" {
-				return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-62626"
-			}
 		case "ingress":
 			if reason == "Reconciling" {
 				return "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-62627"