diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index ebbf760ff6d..f346aa0d82d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -21,14 +21,6 @@ jobs:
     - name: Download Flutter SDK artifacts (flutter precache)
       run: flutter precache --universal
 
-    # This step seems to typically take like 30 seconds.  That's a bit
-    # puzzling, given that we've already run `flutter precache`... but
-    # if this step is left off, then the next step to use the
-    # `flutter` tool just gets 30 seconds longer.  So it must be doing
-    # some useful warmup that the tool needs.
-    - name: Print Flutter version (and implicitly finish preparing Flutter)
-      run: flutter --version
-
     - name: Download our dependencies (flutter pub get)
       run: flutter pub get