diff --git a/pkg/cmd/pr/shared/finder.go b/pkg/cmd/pr/shared/finder.go
index 51860e102..df8cc0fd4 100644
--- a/pkg/cmd/pr/shared/finder.go
+++ b/pkg/cmd/pr/shared/finder.go
@@ -242,33 +242,6 @@ func (f *finder) Find(opts FindOptions) (*api.PullRequest, ghrepo.Interface, err
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Ok this is super, super horrible so bear with me.
-	// The `assignees` field on a Pull Request exposes users that are assigned. It is also possible for bots to be
-	// assigned, but they only appear under the `assignedActors` field. Ideally, the caller of `Find` would determine
-	// the correct field to use based on the `fd.Detector` that is passed in, but they can't construct a detector
-	// because the BaseRepo is only determined within this function. The more correct solution is to do what I did with
-	// the issue commands and decouple argument parsing from API lookup. See PR #10811 for example.
-	var actorAssigneesUsed bool
-	if fields.Contains("assignees") {
-		if opts.Detector == nil {
-			cachedClient := api.NewCachedHTTPClient(httpClient, time.Hour*24)
-			opts.Detector = fd.NewDetector(cachedClient, f.baseRefRepo.RepoHost())
-		}
-
-		issueFeatures, err := opts.Detector.IssueFeatures()
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("error detecting issue features: %v", err)
-		}
-
-		// If actors are assignable on this host then we additionally request the `assignedActors` field.
-		// Note that we don't remove the `assignees` field because some commands (`pr view`) do not display actor
-		// assignees yet, so we have to have both sets of data.
-		if issueFeatures.ActorIsAssignable {
-			fields.Add("assignedActors")
-			actorAssigneesUsed = true
-		}
-	}
-
 	var pr *api.PullRequest
 	if f.prNumber > 0 {
 		// If we have a PR number, let's look it up
@@ -324,10 +297,6 @@ func (f *finder) Find(opts FindOptions) (*api.PullRequest, ghrepo.Interface, err
 		})
 	}
 
-	if actorAssigneesUsed {
-		pr.AssignedActorsUsed = true
-	}
-
 	return pr, f.baseRefRepo, g.Wait()
 }