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The PR should be open against main, not 3.13. Or is main not affected by this change? if this is the case, we won't backport it as it's a slight optimization rather than a bugfix (unless it was a forgotten backport)

Ah I didn't notice.
It affects main, this should be closed.

Ok, I just checked but main is affected as well. I guess it's fine to remove a redundant check but please open a new PR against main instead (namely, checkout from main, apply your fix, and then open the PR against main instead against 3.13). It will be cleaner than rebasing this onto main.

Re-opened against main here: #132972