diff --git a/.werft/util/kubectl.ts b/.werft/util/kubectl.ts
index 667684ba897794..7c8df23c321996 100644
--- a/.werft/util/kubectl.ts
+++ b/.werft/util/kubectl.ts
@@ -68,14 +68,7 @@ async function wipePreviewEnvironmentInstaller(namespace: string, kubeconfig: st
         }).code === 0;
     if (hasGitpodConfigmap) {
         werft.log(slice, `${namespace} has Gitpod configmap, proceeding with removal`);
-        const inWerftFolder = exec(`pwd`, { slice, dontCheckRc: true }).stdout.trim().endsWith(".werft");
-        if (inWerftFolder) {
-            // used in .werft/wipe-devstaging.yaml on preview environment clean-up
-            exec(`./util/uninstall-gitpod.sh ${namespace} ${kubeconfig}`, { slice });
-        } else {
-            // used in .werft/build.yaml on 'with-clean-slate-deployment=true'
-            exec(`./.werft/util/uninstall-gitpod.sh ${namespace} ${kubeconfig}`, { slice });
-        }
+        exec(`./util/uninstall-gitpod.sh ${namespace} ${kubeconfig}`, { slice });
     } else {
         werft.log(slice, `There is no Gitpod configmap, moving on`);
     }
diff --git a/.werft/wipe-devstaging.ts b/.werft/wipe-devstaging.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index ad46d24ade842d..00000000000000
--- a/.werft/wipe-devstaging.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-import { Werft } from "./util/werft";
-import { wipePreviewEnvironmentAndNamespace, listAllPreviewNamespaces, helmInstallName } from "./util/kubectl";
-import * as Tracing from "./observability/tracing";
-import { SpanStatusCode } from "@opentelemetry/api";
-import { ExecOptions } from "./util/shell";
-import { env } from "./util/util";
-import { CORE_DEV_KUBECONFIG_PATH } from "./jobs/build/const";
-
-// Will be set once tracing has been initialized
-let werft: Werft;
-
-async function wipePreviewCluster(shellOpts: ExecOptions) {
-    const namespace_raw = process.env.NAMESPACE;
-    const namespaces: string[] = [];
-    if (namespace_raw === "<no value>" || !namespace_raw) {
-        werft.log("wipe", "Going to wipe all namespaces");
-        listAllPreviewNamespaces(CORE_DEV_KUBECONFIG_PATH, shellOpts).map((ns) => namespaces.push(ns));
-    } else {
-        werft.log("wipe", `Going to wipe namespace ${namespace_raw}`);
-        namespaces.push(namespace_raw);
-    }
-
-    for (const namespace of namespaces) {
-        await wipePreviewEnvironmentAndNamespace(helmInstallName, namespace, CORE_DEV_KUBECONFIG_PATH, {
-            ...shellOpts,
-            slice: "wipe",
-        });
-    }
-}
-
-// clean up the dev cluster in gitpod-core-dev
-async function devCleanup() {
-    await wipePreviewCluster(env(""));
-}
-
-Tracing.initialize()
-    .then(() => {
-        werft = new Werft("wipe-devstaging");
-        werft.phase("wipe");
-    })
-    .then(() => devCleanup())
-    .then(() => werft.done("wipe"))
-    .then(() => werft.endAllSpans())
-    .catch((err) => {
-        werft.rootSpan.setStatus({
-            code: SpanStatusCode.ERROR,
-            message: err,
-        });
-        werft.endAllSpans();
-        console.log("Error", err);
-        // Explicitly not using process.exit as we need to flush tracing, see tracing.js
-        process.exitCode = 1;
-    });
diff --git a/.werft/wipe-devstaging.yaml b/.werft/wipe-devstaging.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a1790b0e0d8f2..00000000000000
--- a/.werft/wipe-devstaging.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-args:
-  - name: namespace
-    desc: "The namespace to remove - if left empty this job removes all preview environments"
-    required: false
-pod:
-  serviceAccount: werft
-  nodeSelector:
-    dev/workload: builds
-  imagePullSecrets:
-    - name: eu-gcr-io-pull-secret
-  volumes:
-    - name: gcp-sa
-      secret:
-        secretName: gcp-sa-gitpod-dev-deployer
-  containers:
-    - name: wipe-devstaging
-      image: eu.gcr.io/gitpod-core-dev/dev/dev-environment:aledbf-dl.1
-      workingDir: /workspace
-      imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-      volumeMounts:
-        - name: gcp-sa
-          mountPath: /mnt/secrets/gcp-sa
-          readOnly: true
-      env:
-        - name: HONEYCOMB_DATASET
-          value: "werft"
-        - name: HONEYCOMB_API_KEY
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: honeycomb-api-key
-              key: apikey
-      command:
-        - bash
-        - -c
-        - |
-          sleep 1
-          set -Eeuo pipefail
-
-          werft log phase prepare
-          gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file /mnt/secrets/gcp-sa/service-account.json
-
-          export NAMESPACE="{{ .Annotations.namespace }}"
-          sudo chown -R gitpod:gitpod /workspace
-
-          KUBECONFIG=/workspace/gitpod/kubeconfigs/core-dev gcloud container clusters get-credentials core-dev --zone europe-west1-b --project gitpod-core-dev
-
-          cd .werft
-          yarn install
-          npx ts-node ./wipe-devstaging.ts