Reverts flutter/flutter#143542

Initiated by: goderbauer

Reason for reverting: Failing post-submit, see https://logs.chromium.org/logs/flutter/buildbucket/cr-buildbucket/8755531866181499153/+/u/run_microbenchmarks/stdout

Original PR Author: bernaferrari

Reviewed By: {goderbauer}

This change reverts the following previous change:
Original Description:
Part 1 of https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/138481

Cherry picking @ignatz work.