diff --git a/packages/editor/src/components/global-styles-provider/index.js b/packages/editor/src/components/global-styles-provider/index.js
index 4250910cc6320..b7869e3413c3d 100644
--- a/packages/editor/src/components/global-styles-provider/index.js
+++ b/packages/editor/src/components/global-styles-provider/index.js
@@ -7,17 +7,15 @@ import { isPlainObject } from 'is-plain-object';
 /**
  * WordPress dependencies
  */
-import { registerBlockStyle, store as blocksStore } from '@wordpress/blocks';
 import { privateApis as blockEditorPrivateApis } from '@wordpress/block-editor';
 import { store as coreStore } from '@wordpress/core-data';
 import { useSelect, useDispatch } from '@wordpress/data';
-import { useEffect, useMemo, useCallback } from '@wordpress/element';
+import { useMemo, useCallback } from '@wordpress/element';
 
 /**
  * Internal dependencies
  */
 import { unlock } from '../../lock-unlock';
-import setNestedValue from '../../utils/set-nested-value';
 
 const { GlobalStylesContext, cleanEmptyObject } = unlock(
 	blockEditorPrivateApis
@@ -32,85 +30,6 @@ export function mergeBaseAndUserConfigs( base, user ) {
 	} );
 }
 
-/**
- * Resolves shared block style variation definitions from the user origin
- * under their respective block types and registers the block style if required.
- *
- * @param {Object} userConfig Current user origin global styles data.
- * @return {Object} Updated global styles data.
- */
-function useResolvedBlockStyleVariationsConfig( userConfig ) {
-	const { getBlockStyles } = useSelect( blocksStore );
-	const sharedVariations = userConfig?.styles?.blocks?.variations;
-
-	// Collect block style variation definitions to merge and unregistered
-	// block styles for automatic registration.
-	const [ userConfigToMerge, unregisteredStyles ] = useMemo( () => {
-		if ( ! sharedVariations ) {
-			return [];
-		}
-
-		const variationsConfigToMerge = {};
-		const unregisteredBlockStyles = [];
-
-		Object.entries( sharedVariations ).forEach(
-			( [ variationName, variation ] ) => {
-				if ( ! variation?.blockTypes?.length ) {
-					return;
-				}
-
-				variation.blockTypes.forEach( ( blockName ) => {
-					const blockStyles = getBlockStyles( blockName );
-					const registeredBlockStyle = blockStyles.find(
-						( { name } ) => name === variationName
-					);
-
-					if ( ! registeredBlockStyle ) {
-						unregisteredBlockStyles.push( [
-							blockName,
-							{
-								name: variationName,
-								label: variationName,
-							},
-						] );
-					}
-
-					const path = [
-						'styles',
-						'blocks',
-						blockName,
-						'variations',
-						variationName,
-					];
-					setNestedValue( variationsConfigToMerge, path, variation );
-				} );
-			}
-		);
-
-		return [ variationsConfigToMerge, unregisteredBlockStyles ];
-	}, [ sharedVariations, getBlockStyles ] );
-
-	// Automatically register missing block styles from variations.
-	useEffect(
-		() =>
-			unregisteredStyles?.forEach( ( unregisteredStyle ) =>
-				registerBlockStyle( ...unregisteredStyle )
-			),
-		[ unregisteredStyles ]
-	);
-
-	// Merge shared block style variation definitions into overall user config.
-	const updatedConfig = useMemo( () => {
-		if ( ! userConfigToMerge ) {
-			return userConfig;
-		}
-
-		return deepmerge( userConfigToMerge, userConfig );
-	}, [ userConfigToMerge, userConfig ] );
-
-	return updatedConfig;
-}
-
 function useGlobalStylesUserConfig() {
 	const { globalStylesId, isReady, settings, styles, _links } = useSelect(
 		( select ) => {
@@ -199,7 +118,7 @@ function useGlobalStylesUserConfig() {
 				options
 			);
 		},
-		[ globalStylesId ]
+		[ globalStylesId, editEntityRecord, getEditedEntityRecord ]
 	);
 
 	return [ isReady, config, setConfig ];
@@ -219,28 +138,26 @@ export function useGlobalStylesContext() {
 	const [ isUserConfigReady, userConfig, setUserConfig ] =
 		useGlobalStylesUserConfig();
 	const [ isBaseConfigReady, baseConfig ] = useGlobalStylesBaseConfig();
-	const userConfigWithVariations =
-		useResolvedBlockStyleVariationsConfig( userConfig );
 
 	const mergedConfig = useMemo( () => {
-		if ( ! baseConfig || ! userConfigWithVariations ) {
+		if ( ! baseConfig || ! userConfig ) {
 			return {};
 		}
 
-		return mergeBaseAndUserConfigs( baseConfig, userConfigWithVariations );
-	}, [ userConfigWithVariations, baseConfig ] );
+		return mergeBaseAndUserConfigs( baseConfig, userConfig );
+	}, [ userConfig, baseConfig ] );
 
 	const context = useMemo( () => {
 		return {
 			isReady: isUserConfigReady && isBaseConfigReady,
-			user: userConfigWithVariations,
+			user: userConfig,
 			base: baseConfig,
 			merged: mergedConfig,
 			setUserConfig,
 		};
 	}, [
 		mergedConfig,
-		userConfigWithVariations,
+		userConfig,
 		baseConfig,
 		setUserConfig,
 		isUserConfigReady,