diff --git a/mypy/checkexpr.py b/mypy/checkexpr.py
index 128ca4129f76..54c8fb517c2c 100644
--- a/mypy/checkexpr.py
+++ b/mypy/checkexpr.py
@@ -5715,6 +5715,11 @@ def visit_type_alias_type(self, t: TypeAliasType) -> Type:
 
     def visit_instance(self, t: Instance) -> Type:
         if t.type.has_param_spec_type:
+            # We need this special-casing to preserve the possibility to store a
+            # generic function in an instance type. Things like
+            #     forall T . Foo[[x: T], T]
+            # are not really expressible in current type system, but this looks like
+            # a useful feature, so let's keep it.
             param_spec_index = next(
                 i for (i, tv) in enumerate(t.type.defn.type_vars) if isinstance(tv, ParamSpecType)
             )
diff --git a/mypy/constraints.py b/mypy/constraints.py
index 837f47dedcdc..6c9ef198fa0d 100644
--- a/mypy/constraints.py
+++ b/mypy/constraints.py
@@ -960,15 +960,12 @@ def visit_callable_type(self, template: CallableType) -> list[Constraint]:
                     for t, a, tk, ak in zip(
                         template_args, cactual_args, template.arg_kinds, cactual.arg_kinds
                     ):
-                        # Unpack may have shifted indices.
-                        if not unpack_present:
-                            # This avoids bogus constraints like T <: P.args
-                            if (
-                                tk == ARG_STAR
-                                and ak != ARG_STAR
-                                or tk == ARG_STAR2
-                                and ak != ARG_STAR2
-                            ):
+                        # This avoids bogus constraints like T <: P.args
+                        if (tk == ARG_STAR and ak != ARG_STAR) or (
+                            tk == ARG_STAR2 and ak != ARG_STAR2
+                        ):
+                            # Unpack may have shifted indices.
+                            if not unpack_present:
                                 continue
                         if isinstance(a, ParamSpecType):
                             # TODO: can we infer something useful for *T vs P?
diff --git a/mypy/solve.py b/mypy/solve.py
index 0c2b71f60d35..4b2b899c2a8d 100644
--- a/mypy/solve.py
+++ b/mypy/solve.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from typing import Iterable, Sequence
 from typing_extensions import TypeAlias as _TypeAlias
 
-from mypy.constraints import SUBTYPE_OF, SUPERTYPE_OF, Constraint, infer_constraints, neg_op
+from mypy.constraints import SUBTYPE_OF, SUPERTYPE_OF, Constraint, infer_constraints
 from mypy.expandtype import expand_type
 from mypy.graph_utils import prepare_sccs, strongly_connected_components, topsort
 from mypy.join import join_types
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
     UninhabitedType,
     UnionType,
     get_proper_type,
-    remove_dups,
 )
 from mypy.typestate import type_state
 
@@ -63,10 +62,6 @@ def solve_constraints(
     for c in constraints:
         extra_vars.extend([v.id for v in c.extra_tvars if v.id not in vars + extra_vars])
         originals.update({v.id: v for v in c.extra_tvars if v.id not in originals})
-    if allow_polymorphic:
-        # Constraints like T :> S and S <: T are semantically the same, but they are
-        # represented differently. Normalize the constraint list w.r.t this equivalence.
-        constraints = normalize_constraints(constraints, vars + extra_vars)
 
     # Collect a list of constraints for each type variable.
     cmap: dict[TypeVarId, list[Constraint]] = {tv: [] for tv in vars + extra_vars}
@@ -335,29 +330,6 @@ def is_trivial_bound(tp: ProperType) -> bool:
     return isinstance(tp, Instance) and tp.type.fullname == "builtins.object"
 
 
-def normalize_constraints(
-    # TODO: delete this function?
-    constraints: list[Constraint],
-    vars: list[TypeVarId],
-) -> list[Constraint]:
-    """Normalize list of constraints (to simplify life for the non-linear solver).
-
-    This includes two things currently:
-      * Complement T :> S by S <: T
-      * Remove strict duplicates
-      * Remove constrains for unrelated variables
-    """
-    res = constraints.copy()
-    for c in constraints:
-        if (
-            isinstance(c.target, TypeVarType)
-            or isinstance(c.target, ParamSpecType)
-            and not c.target.prefix.arg_types
-        ):
-            res.append(Constraint(c.target, neg_op(c.op), c.origin_type_var))
-    return [c for c in remove_dups(constraints) if c.type_var in vars]
-
-
 def transitive_closure(
     tvars: list[TypeVarId], constraints: list[Constraint]
 ) -> tuple[Graph, Bounds, Bounds]: