diff --git a/.github/native-tests.json b/.github/native-tests.json
index 68736ec9e9ef6b..fbd8e62dbe16ad 100644
--- a/.github/native-tests.json
+++ b/.github/native-tests.json
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
         {
             "category": "Misc4",
             "timeout": 130,
-            "test-modules": "picocli-native, gradle, micrometer-mp-metrics, micrometer-prometheus, logging-json, jaxp, jaxb, opentelemetry, opentelemetry-jdbc-instrumentation, opentelemetry-redis-instrumentation, webjars-locator",
+            "test-modules": "picocli-native, gradle, micrometer-mp-metrics, micrometer-prometheus, logging-json, jaxp, jaxb, opentelemetry, opentelemetry-jdbc-instrumentation, opentelemetry-redis-instrumentation, web-dependency-locator",
             "os-name": "ubuntu-latest"
         },
         {
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/BytecodeTransformerBuildItem.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/BytecodeTransformerBuildItem.java
index adfdbec20bf84f..ec968f494b8b09 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/BytecodeTransformerBuildItem.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/BytecodeTransformerBuildItem.java
@@ -10,13 +10,6 @@
 
 public final class BytecodeTransformerBuildItem extends MultiBuildItem {
 
-    /**
-     * If this is true it means the class should be loaded eagerly by a thread pool in dev mode
-     * on multithreaded systems.
-     * <p>
-     * Transformation is expensive, so doing it this way can speed up boot time.
-     */
-    final boolean eager;
     final String classToTransform;
     final BiFunction<String, ClassVisitor, ClassVisitor> visitorFunction;
 
@@ -75,7 +68,6 @@ public BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(boolean eager, String classToTransform,
             BiFunction<String, ClassVisitor, ClassVisitor> visitorFunction, Set<String> requireConstPoolEntry,
             boolean cacheable) {
         Objects.requireNonNull(visitorFunction, "visitorFunction");
-        this.eager = eager;
         this.classToTransform = classToTransform;
         this.visitorFunction = visitorFunction;
         this.requireConstPoolEntry = requireConstPoolEntry;
@@ -87,7 +79,6 @@ public BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(boolean eager, String classToTransform,
     }
 
     public BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(Builder builder) {
-        this.eager = builder.eager;
         this.classToTransform = builder.classToTransform;
         this.visitorFunction = builder.visitorFunction;
         this.requireConstPoolEntry = builder.requireConstPoolEntry;
@@ -113,8 +104,9 @@ public Set<String> getRequireConstPoolEntry() {
         return requireConstPoolEntry;
     }
 
+    @Deprecated
     public boolean isEager() {
-        return eager;
+        return false;
     }
 
     public boolean isCacheable() {
@@ -161,7 +153,6 @@ public static class Builder {
         private String classToTransform;
         private BiFunction<String, ClassVisitor, ClassVisitor> visitorFunction;
         private Set<String> requireConstPoolEntry = null;
-        private boolean eager = false;
         private boolean cacheable = false;
         private int classReaderOptions = 0;
         private int priority = 0;
@@ -191,8 +182,8 @@ public Builder setRequireConstPoolEntry(Set<String> requireConstPoolEntry) {
             return this;
         }
 
+        @Deprecated
         public Builder setEager(boolean eager) {
-            this.eager = eager;
             return this;
         }
 
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/TransformedClassesBuildItem.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/TransformedClassesBuildItem.java
index 551b778d6a5370..2e8715f3f641af 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/TransformedClassesBuildItem.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/builditem/TransformedClassesBuildItem.java
@@ -46,13 +46,18 @@ public static class TransformedClass {
          */
         private final byte[] data;
         private final String fileName;
-        private final boolean eager;
 
+        @Deprecated
         public TransformedClass(String className, byte[] data, String fileName, boolean eager) {
             this.className = className;
             this.data = data;
             this.fileName = fileName;
-            this.eager = eager;
+        }
+
+        public TransformedClass(String className, byte[] data, String fileName) {
+            this.className = className;
+            this.data = data;
+            this.fileName = fileName;
         }
 
         public byte[] getData() {
@@ -67,8 +72,9 @@ public String getClassName() {
             return className;
         }
 
+        @Deprecated
         public boolean isEager() {
-            return eager;
+            return false;
         }
 
         @Override
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/steps/ClassTransformingBuildStep.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/steps/ClassTransformingBuildStep.java
index 363339d88abdc4..45eca2642b7af3 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/steps/ClassTransformingBuildStep.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/deployment/steps/ClassTransformingBuildStep.java
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ TransformedClassesBuildItem handleClassTransformation(List<BytecodeTransformerBu
                 bytecodeTransformerBuildItems.size());
         Set<String> noConstScanning = new HashSet<>();
         Map<String, Set<String>> constScanning = new HashMap<>();
-        Set<String> eager = new HashSet<>();
         Set<String> nonCacheable = new HashSet<>();
         Map<String, Integer> classReaderOptions = new HashMap<>();
         for (BytecodeTransformerBuildItem i : bytecodeTransformerBuildItems) {
@@ -106,9 +105,6 @@ TransformedClassesBuildItem handleClassTransformation(List<BytecodeTransformerBu
                 constScanning.computeIfAbsent(i.getClassToTransform(), (s) -> new HashSet<>())
                         .addAll(i.getRequireConstPoolEntry());
             }
-            if (i.isEager()) {
-                eager.add(i.getClassToTransform());
-            }
             if (!i.isCacheable()) {
                 nonCacheable.add(i.getClassToTransform());
             }
@@ -164,7 +160,7 @@ public byte[] apply(String className, byte[] originalBytes) {
                                 classReaderOptions.getOrDefault(className, 0));
                         TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass transformedClass = new TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass(
                                 className, data,
-                                classFileName, eager.contains(className));
+                                classFileName);
                         return transformedClass.getData();
                     } else {
                         return originalBytes;
@@ -241,7 +237,7 @@ public TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass call() throws Exception {
                                     classReaderOptions.getOrDefault(className, 0));
                             TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass transformedClass = new TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass(
                                     className, data,
-                                    classFileName, eager.contains(className));
+                                    classFileName);
                             if (cacheable && launchModeBuildItem.getLaunchMode() == LaunchMode.DEVELOPMENT
                                     && classData != null) {
                                 transformedClassesCache.put(className, transformedClass);
diff --git a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/runner/bootstrap/StartupActionImpl.java b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/runner/bootstrap/StartupActionImpl.java
index fc195c8eee40af..3cb39c10b387fc 100644
--- a/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/runner/bootstrap/StartupActionImpl.java
+++ b/core/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/runner/bootstrap/StartupActionImpl.java
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -60,8 +59,7 @@ public StartupActionImpl(CuratedApplication curatedApplication, BuildResult buil
         this.devServicesProperties = extractDevServicesProperties(buildResult);
         this.runtimeApplicationShutdownBuildItems = buildResult.consumeMulti(RuntimeApplicationShutdownBuildItem.class);
 
-        Set<String> eagerClasses = new HashSet<>();
-        Map<String, byte[]> transformedClasses = extractTransformers(buildResult, eagerClasses);
+        Map<String, byte[]> transformedClasses = extractTransformedClasses(buildResult);
         QuarkusClassLoader baseClassLoader = curatedApplication.getBaseRuntimeClassLoader();
         QuarkusClassLoader runtimeClassLoader;
 
@@ -347,16 +345,13 @@ private static Map<String, String> extractDevServicesProperties(BuildResult buil
         return new HashMap<>(result.getConfig());
     }
 
-    private static Map<String, byte[]> extractTransformers(BuildResult buildResult, Set<String> eagerClasses) {
+    private static Map<String, byte[]> extractTransformedClasses(BuildResult buildResult) {
         Map<String, byte[]> ret = new HashMap<>();
         TransformedClassesBuildItem transformers = buildResult.consume(TransformedClassesBuildItem.class);
         for (Set<TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass> i : transformers.getTransformedClassesByJar().values()) {
             for (TransformedClassesBuildItem.TransformedClass clazz : i) {
                 if (clazz.getData() != null) {
                     ret.put(clazz.getFileName(), clazz.getData());
-                    if (clazz.isEager()) {
-                        eagerClasses.add(clazz.getClassName());
-                    }
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/extensions/arc/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/arc/deployment/SplitPackageProcessor.java b/extensions/arc/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/arc/deployment/SplitPackageProcessor.java
index f68b4256900b6d..998c040af65d45 100644
--- a/extensions/arc/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/arc/deployment/SplitPackageProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/arc/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/arc/deployment/SplitPackageProcessor.java
@@ -39,16 +39,6 @@ public class SplitPackageProcessor {
 
     private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(SplitPackageProcessor.class);
 
-    private static final Predicate<String> IGNORE_PACKAGE = new Predicate<>() {
-
-        @Override
-        public boolean test(String packageName) {
-            // Remove the elements from this list when the original issue is fixed
-            // so that we can detect further issues.
-            return packageName.startsWith("io.fabric8.kubernetes");
-        }
-    };
-
     @BuildStep
     void splitPackageDetection(ApplicationArchivesBuildItem archivesBuildItem,
             ArcConfig config,
@@ -82,9 +72,6 @@ void splitPackageDetection(ApplicationArchivesBuildItem archivesBuildItem,
         // - "com.me.app.sub" found in [archiveA, archiveB]
         StringBuilder splitPackagesWarning = new StringBuilder();
         for (String packageName : packageToArchiveMap.keySet()) {
-            if (IGNORE_PACKAGE.test(packageName)) {
-                continue;
-            }
 
             // skip packages based on pre-built predicates
             boolean skipEvaluation = false;
diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java
index f4d603e7a3a740..54b5f4de5f5aa1 100644
--- a/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/deployment/HibernateOrmProcessor.java
@@ -1217,7 +1217,11 @@ private void enhanceEntities(final JpaModelBuildItem jpaModel,
             BuildProducer<GeneratedClassBuildItem> additionalClasses) {
         HibernateEntityEnhancer hibernateEntityEnhancer = new HibernateEntityEnhancer();
         for (String i : jpaModel.getManagedClassNames()) {
-            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(true, i, hibernateEntityEnhancer, true));
+
+            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem.Builder()
+                    .setClassToTransform(i)
+                    .setVisitorFunction(hibernateEntityEnhancer)
+                    .setCacheable(true).build());
         }
         Set<String> additionalClassNames = new HashSet<>();
         for (AdditionalJpaModelBuildItem additionalJpaModel : additionalJpaModelBuildItems) {
diff --git a/extensions/panache/hibernate-orm-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/panache/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java b/extensions/panache/hibernate-orm-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/panache/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java
index 41064ad0fb4665..a77e10b89193af 100644
--- a/extensions/panache/hibernate-orm-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/panache/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/panache/hibernate-orm-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/panache/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ void build(
         for (PanacheEntityClassBuildItem entityClass : entityClasses) {
             String entityClassName = entityClass.get().name().toString();
             modelClasses.add(entityClassName);
-            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(true, entityClassName, entityOperationsEnhancer));
+            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(entityClassName, entityOperationsEnhancer));
         }
 
         panacheEntities.addAll(modelClasses);
diff --git a/extensions/panache/hibernate-reactive-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/reactive/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java b/extensions/panache/hibernate-reactive-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/reactive/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java
index 4c3b8de770e1a6..1467d4f43a0c35 100644
--- a/extensions/panache/hibernate-reactive-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/reactive/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/panache/hibernate-reactive-panache/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/reactive/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateResourceProcessor.java
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ void build(CombinedIndexBuildItem index,
                 ReactiveJavaJpaTypeBundle.BUNDLE);
         for (PanacheEntityClassBuildItem entityClass : entityClasses) {
             String entityClassName = entityClass.get().name().toString();
-            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(true, entityClassName, entityOperationsEnhancer));
+            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(entityClassName, entityOperationsEnhancer));
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/extensions/panache/panache-hibernate-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateCommonResourceProcessor.java b/extensions/panache/panache-hibernate-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateCommonResourceProcessor.java
index c8c3966ea5fc3e..b764e7df152b02 100644
--- a/extensions/panache/panache-hibernate-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateCommonResourceProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/panache/panache-hibernate-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/panache/common/deployment/PanacheHibernateCommonResourceProcessor.java
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ void replaceFieldAccesses(CombinedIndexBuildItem index,
         PanacheJpaEntityAccessorsEnhancer entityAccessorsEnhancer = new PanacheJpaEntityAccessorsEnhancer(index.getIndex(),
                 modelInfo);
         for (String entityClassName : entitiesWithExternallyAccessibleFields) {
-            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(true, entityClassName, entityAccessorsEnhancer));
+            transformers.produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(entityClassName, entityAccessorsEnhancer));
         }
 
         // Replace field access in application code with calls to accessors
diff --git a/extensions/resteasy-classic/resteasy-server-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/resteasy/server/common/deployment/ResteasyServerCommonProcessor.java b/extensions/resteasy-classic/resteasy-server-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/resteasy/server/common/deployment/ResteasyServerCommonProcessor.java
index 44d29016987f44..3dedbf5ee5108c 100644
--- a/extensions/resteasy-classic/resteasy-server-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/resteasy/server/common/deployment/ResteasyServerCommonProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/resteasy-classic/resteasy-server-common/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/resteasy/server/common/deployment/ResteasyServerCommonProcessor.java
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@ private static void generateDefaultConstructors(BuildProducer<BytecodeTransforme
 
             final String name = classInfo.name().toString();
             transformers
-                    .produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(true, name, new BiFunction<String, ClassVisitor, ClassVisitor>() {
+                    .produce(new BytecodeTransformerBuildItem(name, new BiFunction<String, ClassVisitor, ClassVisitor>() {
                         @Override
                         public ClassVisitor apply(String className, ClassVisitor classVisitor) {
                             ClassVisitor cv = new ClassVisitor(Gizmo.ASM_API_VERSION, classVisitor) {
diff --git a/integration-tests/pom.xml b/integration-tests/pom.xml
index 57f966d6d7b6a2..355b11472b6ae4 100644
--- a/integration-tests/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/pom.xml
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@
                 <module>simple with space</module>
                 <module>picocli</module>
                 <module>picocli-native</module>
-                <module>webjars-locator</module>
+                <module>web-dependency-locator</module>
                 <module>devmode</module>
                 <module>ide-launcher</module>
                 <module>elasticsearch-rest-client</module>
diff --git a/integration-tests/webjars-locator/pom.xml b/integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/pom.xml
similarity index 93%
rename from integration-tests/webjars-locator/pom.xml
rename to integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/pom.xml
index f739130a51c0dc..0dff717428ee24 100644
--- a/integration-tests/webjars-locator/pom.xml
+++ b/integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/pom.xml
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@
         <version>999-SNAPSHOT</version>
     </parent>
 
-    <artifactId>quarkus-integration-test-webjars-locator</artifactId>
+    <artifactId>quarkus-integration-test-web-dependency-locator</artifactId>
 
-    <name>Quarkus - Integration Tests - WebJar Locator</name>
+    <name>Quarkus - Integration Tests - Web Dependency Locator</name>
 
     <properties>
         <!-- do not update these dependencies, they are only used for testing -->
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
-            <artifactId>quarkus-webjars-locator</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-web-dependency-locator</artifactId>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.webjars</groupId>
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.quarkus</groupId>
-            <artifactId>quarkus-webjars-locator-deployment</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>quarkus-web-dependency-locator-deployment</artifactId>
             <version>${project.version}</version>
             <type>pom</type>
             <scope>test</scope>
diff --git a/integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/main/resources/application.properties b/integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/main/resources/application.properties
similarity index 100%
rename from integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/main/resources/application.properties
rename to integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/main/resources/application.properties
diff --git a/integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceIT.java b/integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceIT.java
similarity index 100%
rename from integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceIT.java
rename to integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceIT.java
diff --git a/integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceTest.java b/integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceTest.java
similarity index 100%
rename from integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceTest.java
rename to integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/test/java/io/quarkus/it/webjar/locator/WebJarResourceTest.java
diff --git a/integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/test/resources/application.properties b/integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/test/resources/application.properties
similarity index 100%
rename from integration-tests/webjars-locator/src/test/resources/application.properties
rename to integration-tests/web-dependency-locator/src/test/resources/application.properties