diff --git a/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/deploy_test.go b/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/deploy_test.go
index 6ad0d7338f94..50d298f36d45 100644
--- a/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/deploy_test.go
+++ b/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/deploy_test.go
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ func TestMakePodSpec(t *testing.T) {
 				),
 			}),
 	}, {
-		name: "propertes allowed by the webhook are passed through",
+		name: "properties allowed by the webhook are passed through",
 		rev: revision("bar", "foo",
 			withContainers([]corev1.Container{{
 				Name:  servingContainerName,
diff --git a/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/queue.go b/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/queue.go
index 309c1c19dc39..c789640a31c5 100644
--- a/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/queue.go
+++ b/pkg/reconciler/revision/resources/queue.go
@@ -260,25 +260,24 @@ func makeQueueContainer(rev *v1.Revision, cfg *config.Config) (*corev1.Container
 	// During startup we want to poll the container faster than Kubernetes will
 	// allow, so we use an ExecProbe which starts immediately and then polls
 	// every 25ms. We encode the original probe as JSON in an environment
-	// variable for this exec probe to use.
-	startupProbe := container.ReadinessProbe.DeepCopy()
-	applyReadinessProbeDefaultsForExec(startupProbe, userPort)
-	probeJSON, err := readiness.EncodeProbe(startupProbe)
+	// variable for this probe to use.
+	userProbe := container.ReadinessProbe.DeepCopy()
+	applyReadinessProbeDefaultsForExec(userProbe, userPort)
+	execProbe := makeExecProbe(userProbe)
+	userProbeJSON, err := readiness.EncodeProbe(userProbe)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to serialize readiness probe: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	// After startup we'll directly use the same QP http health check the
+	// After startup we'll directly use the same http health check endpoint the
 	// execprobe would have used (which will then check the user container).
-	// This maintains the behaviour of incorporating user-container readiness
-	// in QP readiness.
-	readinessProbe := container.ReadinessProbe.DeepCopy()
-	readinessProbe.Handler = corev1.Handler{
+	// Unlike the StartupProbe, we don't need to override any of the
+	// timeouts/periods/thresholds here.
+	httpProbe := container.ReadinessProbe.DeepCopy()
+	httpProbe.Handler = corev1.Handler{
 		HTTPGet: &corev1.HTTPGetAction{
 			Port: intstr.FromInt(int(servingPort.ContainerPort)),
 			HTTPHeaders: []corev1.HTTPHeader{{
-				// Adding this header causes the Queue Proxy to perform a
-				// health check of itself and the user container.
 				Name:  network.ProbeHeaderName,
 				Value: queue.Name,
 			}},
@@ -290,8 +289,8 @@ func makeQueueContainer(rev *v1.Revision, cfg *config.Config) (*corev1.Container
 		Image:           cfg.Deployment.QueueSidecarImage,
 		Resources:       createQueueResources(cfg.Deployment, rev.GetAnnotations(), container),
 		Ports:           ports,
-		StartupProbe:    makeExecProbe(startupProbe),
-		ReadinessProbe:  readinessProbe,
+		StartupProbe:    execProbe,
+		ReadinessProbe:  httpProbe,
 		SecurityContext: queueSecurityContext,
 		Env: []corev1.EnvVar{{
 			Name:  "SERVING_NAMESPACE",
@@ -369,7 +368,7 @@ func makeQueueContainer(rev *v1.Revision, cfg *config.Config) (*corev1.Container
 			Value: metrics.Domain(),
 		}, {
 			Name:  "SERVING_READINESS_PROBE",
-			Value: probeJSON,
+			Value: userProbeJSON,
 		}, {
 			Name:  "ENABLE_PROFILING",
 			Value: strconv.FormatBool(cfg.Observability.EnableProfiling),