diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-scheduler.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-scheduler.test.ts
index cb9d732035d..de47f23df15 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-scheduler.test.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-scheduler.test.ts
@@ -613,16 +613,10 @@ describe('pane terminal output scheduler', () => {
     expect(terminal.write.mock.calls.map(([data]) => data).join('')).toBe(`${dense}${tail}`)
   })
 
-  it('paces a latency-sensitive dense foreground redraw instead of writing it whole', async () => {
+  it('writes a latency-sensitive foreground redraw whole, even when it is dense', async () => {
     vi.useFakeTimers()
     const { writeTerminalOutput } = await loadScheduler()
     const terminal = createForegroundTerminal()
-    const parsed: (() => void)[] = []
-    terminal.write.mockImplementation((_data: string, callback?: () => void) => {
-      if (callback) {
-        parsed.push(callback)
-      }
-    })
     const dense = Array.from(
       { length: 1_300 },
       (_, index) => `\x1b[${30 + (index % 8)}mX\x1b[0m`
@@ -630,30 +624,9 @@ describe('pane terminal output scheduler', () => {
 
     writeTerminalOutput(terminal, dense, { foreground: true, latencySensitive: true })
 
-    // The redraw is queued rather than submitted whole, then released one
-    // parser batch at a time.
-    expect(terminal.write).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
-    vi.advanceTimersByTime(0)
-    expect(terminal.write).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
-    expect(terminal.write.mock.calls[0]?.[0]).toHaveLength(4 * 1024)
-
-    while (parsed.length > 0) {
-      parsed.shift()?.()
-      vi.advanceTimersByTime(0)
-    }
-    expect(terminal.write.mock.calls.map(([data]) => data).join('')).toBe(dense)
-    expect(terminal.write.mock.calls.length).toBeGreaterThan(1)
-  })
-
-  it('writes a latency-sensitive foreground redraw whole when it is not dense', async () => {
-    vi.useFakeTimers()
-    const { writeTerminalOutput } = await loadScheduler()
-    const terminal = createForegroundTerminal()
-    const plain = 'plain redraw line\r\n'.repeat(1_000)
-
-    writeTerminalOutput(terminal, plain, { foreground: true, latencySensitive: true })
-
-    expect(terminal.write.mock.calls.map(([data]) => data)).toEqual([plain])
+    // Pacing this path would delay first paint by a macrotask and multiply the
+    // per-write viewport settle inside the post-keystroke window.
+    expect(terminal.write.mock.calls.map(([data]) => data)).toEqual([dense])
   })
 
   it('holds the parse probe behind terminal output the flush could not submit', async () => {
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-writer.ts b/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-writer.ts
index ba278a76843..5334b5d108d 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-writer.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/lib/pane-manager/pane-terminal-output-writer.ts
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ import {
 import {
   ALWAYS_REFRESH_FOREGROUND_SYNCHRONOUSLY,
   BACKGROUND_FLUSH_DELAY_MS,
-  DENSE_SGR_CHUNK_CHARS,
   FOREGROUND_BACKLOG_WARNING,
   LARGE_BACKLOG_CHARS,
   discardTerminalOutput,
@@ -43,7 +42,6 @@ import {
   type TerminalOutputTarget,
   type WriteTerminalOutputOptions
 } from './pane-terminal-output-queue-registry'
-import { isDenseSgr } from '../../../../shared/terminal-sgr-density'
 
 export function writeTerminalOutputImpl(
   terminal: TerminalOutputTarget,
@@ -188,27 +186,6 @@ export function writeTerminalOutputImpl(
       scheduleDrain(0)
       return
     }
-    if (data.length >= DENSE_SGR_CHUNK_CHARS && isDenseSgr(data)) {
-      const queued = entry ?? createQueueEntry(terminal, options)
-      queued.onBackgroundBacklogDropped = options.onBackgroundBacklogDropped
-      queued.highPriority = true
-      queuedByTerminal.set(terminal, queued)
-      enqueueChunk(queued, data, {
-        foreground: true,
-        forceForegroundRefresh: options.forceForegroundRefresh,
-        followupForegroundRefresh: options.followupForegroundRefresh,
-        shouldRefreshForegroundSynchronously: options.shouldRefreshForegroundSynchronously,
-        stripTransientCursorShows: options.stripTransientCursorShows,
-        beforeWrite: options.beforeWrite,
-        onParsed: options.onParsed,
-        ackCredit: options.ackCredit
-      })
-      if (queueCapExceeded(queued)) {
-        replaceBacklogWithWarning(queued, FOREGROUND_BACKLOG_WARNING)
-      }
-      scheduleDrain(0)
-      return
-    }
     flushTerminalOutputImpl(terminal)
     const remaining = queuedByTerminal.get(terminal)
     if (remaining) {