diff --git a/changelog.d/9900-dead-string-wrapper-diag.md b/changelog.d/9900-dead-string-wrapper-diag.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a26f98abdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/9900-dead-string-wrapper-diag.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+### Fixed
+
+- GC primitive-dispatch diagnostics no longer expose a string-wrapper counter
+  that lost its only writer when boxed string indices became virtual.
diff --git a/crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/diag_sites.rs b/crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/diag_sites.rs
index 462d55afcb..5d7776bfab 100644
--- a/crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/diag_sites.rs
+++ b/crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/diag_sites.rs
@@ -369,22 +369,18 @@ pub(super) fn report_charges(label: &str) {
 // whose method the native dispatch tower does not recognise falls through to
 // `native_call_method::call_primitive_builtin_prototype_method`: it resolves
 // `globalThis.<Builtin>.prototype[<method>]` and, for a SLOPPY callee, boxes
-// the receiver with `ToObject`. For a string that wrapper materialises one own
-// property per UTF-16 code unit. So a single unrecognised method name on a hot
-// render path turns into O(length) allocations per call, and the only way to
-// tell WHICH names those are is to count them at the fork.
+// the receiver with `ToObject`. A string wrapper exposes one virtual own index
+// per UTF-16 code unit, so tracking receiver length shows the scale of the
+// boxed surface alongside the method names that reach this fork.
 
 crate::perry_thread_local! {
     /// `"<Builtin>.prototype.<method>" -> (calls, receiver_utf16_chars)`.
     static PRIMITIVE_DISPATCH: RefCell<HashMap<String, (u64, u64)>> =
         RefCell::new(HashMap::new());
-    /// String wrappers actually materialised: (wrappers, index properties).
-    static STRING_WRAPPERS: Cell<(u64, u64)> = const { Cell::new((0, 0)) };
 }
 
 /// Record one trip through the primitive-method fallback. `recv_chars` is the
-/// receiver's UTF-16 length (0 when the receiver is not a string) — the number
-/// of own index properties a sloppy callee's `ToObject` wrapper costs.
+/// receiver's UTF-16 length (0 when the receiver is not a string).
 pub(crate) fn primitive_dispatch(builtin: &[u8], method: &str, recv_chars: u64) {
     if !gc_diag_enabled() {
         return;
@@ -403,12 +399,6 @@ pub(super) fn report_primitive_dispatch(label: &str) {
     if !gc_diag_enabled() {
         return;
     }
-    let (wrappers, indices) = STRING_WRAPPERS.with(Cell::get);
-    if wrappers > 0 {
-        eprintln!(
-            "[gc-primitive-dispatch] {label}: string_wrappers={wrappers} index_properties={indices}"
-        );
-    }
     let rows: Vec<(String, (u64, u64))> =
         PRIMITIVE_DISPATCH.with(|m| m.borrow().iter().map(|(k, v)| (k.clone(), *v)).collect());
     if rows.is_empty() {
diff --git a/scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json b/scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
index 1bbbb6b148..e097e960ad 100644
--- a/scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
+++ b/scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
@@ -341,12 +341,6 @@
       "verdict": "not_a_gc_pointer",
       "why": "#9794: per-method primitive-dispatch counts, `HashMap<String, (u64, u64)>`. Rust-owned method-name strings and counters."
     },
-    {
-      "file": "crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/diag_sites.rs",
-      "name": "STRING_WRAPPERS",
-      "verdict": "not_a_gc_pointer",
-      "why": "#9794: materialized/elided string-wrapper counts as a `(u64, u64)` pair."
-    },
     {
       "file": "crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/oldgen_defrag.rs",
       "name": "LAST_IDLE_PREDICTED_RELEASE",