diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/boot/QuarkusEnvironment.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/boot/QuarkusEnvironment.java
deleted file mode 100644
index de411d39ef1f2e..00000000000000
--- a/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/boot/QuarkusEnvironment.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-package io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.runtime.boot;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.util.Collections;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.Properties;
-
-import org.hibernate.cfg.Environment;
-import org.hibernate.internal.CoreMessageLogger;
-import org.jboss.logging.Logger;
-
-/**
- * A lighter alternative to org.hibernate.cfg.Environment: we don't need it to look for certain environment variables,
- * and don't want it to copy all of {@link System#getProperties()} into the ORM configuration.
- * The only legacy behaviour we allow is to load the "/hibernate.properties" resource.
- */
-public class QuarkusEnvironment {
-
-    private static final Map GLOBAL_INITIAL_PROPERTIES;
-
-    static {
-        //Skip logging this as the original Environment initialization is also being triggered;
-        //avoiding that will need ORM6.
-        //Version.logVersion();
-
-        ClassLoader classLoader = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader();
-        if (classLoader != null) {
-            InputStream stream = classLoader.getResourceAsStream("/hibernate.properties");
-            if (stream != null) {
-                final CoreMessageLogger LOG = Logger.getMessageLogger(CoreMessageLogger.class, Environment.class.getName());
-                LOG.warnf(
-                        "The resource hibernate.properties was found in the root of your application. This configuration source is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Quarkus, "
-                                +
-                                "as it's not compatible with Live Coding, multiple Persistence Units and many more cool features we have planned. Please refrain from "
-                                +
-                                "using it to configure your ORM and use the available configurations in application.properties (check the guide in https://quarkus.io/guides/hibernate-orm#quarkus-hibernate-orm_configuration). Should no configuration exist for your use case please report in: https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/. Thank you! ");
-                final Properties p = new Properties();
-                try {
-                    p.load(stream);
-                } catch (Exception e) {
-                    LOG.unableToLoadProperties();
-                } finally {
-                    try {
-                        stream.close();
-                    } catch (IOException ioe) {
-                        LOG.unableToCloseStreamError(ioe);
-                    }
-                }
-                GLOBAL_INITIAL_PROPERTIES = Collections.unmodifiableMap(p);
-            } else {
-                GLOBAL_INITIAL_PROPERTIES = Collections.EMPTY_MAP;
-            }
-        } else {
-            GLOBAL_INITIAL_PROPERTIES = Collections.EMPTY_MAP;
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @return
-     * @see Environment#getProperties()
-     */
-    public static Map getInitialProperties() {
-        return GLOBAL_INITIAL_PROPERTIES;
-    }
-}
diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/recording/RecordableBootstrap.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/recording/RecordableBootstrap.java
index 84ad02b35ef90d..e7f2970f751767 100644
--- a/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/recording/RecordableBootstrap.java
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/recording/RecordableBootstrap.java
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@
 import org.hibernate.service.internal.ProvidedService;
 import org.hibernate.service.spi.ServiceContributor;
 
-import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.runtime.boot.QuarkusEnvironment;
 import io.quarkus.hibernate.orm.runtime.service.InitialInitiatorListProvider;
 
 /**
@@ -42,13 +41,7 @@ public final class RecordableBootstrap extends StandardServiceRegistryBuilder {
 
     public RecordableBootstrap(BootstrapServiceRegistry bootstrapServiceRegistry,
             InitialInitiatorListProvider initialInitiatorsProvider) {
-        this(bootstrapServiceRegistry, initialProperties(), LoadedConfig.baseline(), initialInitiatorsProvider);
-    }
-
-    private static Map initialProperties() {
-        HashMap map = new HashMap();
-        map.putAll(QuarkusEnvironment.getInitialProperties());
-        return map;
+        this(bootstrapServiceRegistry, new HashMap(), LoadedConfig.baseline(), initialInitiatorsProvider);
     }
 
     private RecordableBootstrap(BootstrapServiceRegistry bootstrapServiceRegistry, Map properties,