diff --git a/config/plugins/esbuild/graphQLImportPlugin.ts b/config/plugins/esbuild/graphQLImportPlugin.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index c09a5907b..000000000
--- a/config/plugins/esbuild/graphQLImportPlugin.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-import fs from 'fs/promises'
-import type { Plugin } from 'esbuild'
-
-/**
- * A plugin to replace `require('graphql')` statements with `await import('graphql')`
- * only for ESM bundles. This makes the GraphQL module to be imported lazily
- * while maintaining the CommonJS compatibility.
- * @see https://github.com/mswjs/msw/issues/2254
- */
-export function graphqlImportPlugin(): Plugin {
-  return {
-    name: 'graphql-import-plugin',
-    setup(build) {
-      if (build.initialOptions.format !== 'esm') {
-        return
-      }
-
-      build.onLoad({ filter: /\.ts$/ }, async (args) => {
-        const contents = await fs.readFile(args.path, 'utf-8')
-        const match = /require\(['"]graphql['"]\)/g.exec(contents)
-
-        if (match) {
-          return {
-            loader: 'ts',
-            contents:
-              contents.slice(0, match.index - 1) +
-              `await import('graphql').catch((error) => {console.error('[MSW] Failed to parse a GraphQL query: cannot import the "graphql" module. Please make sure you install it if you wish to intercept GraphQL requests. See the original import error below.'); throw error})` +
-              contents.slice(match.index + match[0].length),
-          }
-        }
-      })
-    },
-  }
-}
diff --git a/src/core/utils/internal/parseGraphQLRequest.ts b/src/core/utils/internal/parseGraphQLRequest.ts
index 922375fae..62fa55379 100644
--- a/src/core/utils/internal/parseGraphQLRequest.ts
+++ b/src/core/utils/internal/parseGraphQLRequest.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import type {
   OperationDefinitionNode,
   OperationTypeNode,
 } from 'graphql'
+import { parse } from 'graphql'
 import type { GraphQLVariables } from '../../handlers/GraphQLHandler'
 import { toPublicUrl } from '../request/toPublicUrl'
 import { devUtils } from './devUtils'
@@ -39,16 +40,7 @@ export function parseDocumentNode(node: DocumentNode): ParsedGraphQLQuery {
   }
 }
 
-async function parseQuery(query: string): Promise<ParsedGraphQLQuery | Error> {
-  /**
-   * @note Use `require` to get the "graphql" module here.
-   * It has to be scoped to this function because this module leaks to the
-   * root export. It has to be `require` because tools like Jest have trouble
-   * handling dynamic imports. It gets replaced with a dynamic import on build time.
-   */
-  // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
-  const { parse } = require('graphql')
-
+function parseQuery(query: string): ParsedGraphQLQuery | Error {
   try {
     const ast = parse(query)
     return parseDocumentNode(ast)
@@ -189,7 +181,7 @@ export async function parseGraphQLRequest(
   }
 
   const { query, variables } = input
-  const parsedResult = await parseQuery(query)
+  const parsedResult = parseQuery(query)
 
   if (parsedResult instanceof Error) {
     const requestPublicUrl = toPublicUrl(request.url)
diff --git a/tsup.config.ts b/tsup.config.ts
index 8c606d11e..68c889463 100644
--- a/tsup.config.ts
+++ b/tsup.config.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import {
 } from './config/plugins/esbuild/copyWorkerPlugin'
 import { resolveCoreImportsPlugin } from './config/plugins/esbuild/resolveCoreImportsPlugin'
 import { forceEsmExtensionsPlugin } from './config/plugins/esbuild/forceEsmExtensionsPlugin'
-import { graphqlImportPlugin } from './config/plugins/esbuild/graphQLImportPlugin'
 import packageJson from './package.json'
 
 // Externalize the in-house dependencies so that the user
@@ -34,7 +33,7 @@ const coreConfig: Options = {
   sourcemap: true,
   dts: true,
   tsconfig: path.resolve(__dirname, 'src/tsconfig.core.build.json'),
-  esbuildPlugins: [graphqlImportPlugin(), forceEsmExtensionsPlugin()],
+  esbuildPlugins: [forceEsmExtensionsPlugin()],
 }
 
 const nodeConfig: Options = {