diff --git a/src/createRoom.ts b/src/createRoom.ts
index 66177d812b1..955e3a5707a 100644
--- a/src/createRoom.ts
+++ b/src/createRoom.ts
@@ -132,8 +132,6 @@ export default async function createRoom(opts: IOpts): Promise<string | null> {
                 events: {
                     // Allow all users to send video member updates
                     [VIDEO_CHANNEL_MEMBER]: 0,
-                    // Make widgets immutable, even to admins
-                    "im.vector.modular.widgets": 200,
                     // Annoyingly, we have to reiterate all the defaults here
                     [EventType.RoomName]: 50,
                     [EventType.RoomAvatar]: 50,
@@ -144,10 +142,6 @@ export default async function createRoom(opts: IOpts): Promise<string | null> {
                     [EventType.RoomServerAcl]: 100,
                     [EventType.RoomEncryption]: 100,
                 },
-                users: {
-                    // Temporarily give ourselves the power to set up a widget
-                    [client.getUserId()]: 200,
-                },
             };
         }
     }
@@ -270,11 +264,6 @@ export default async function createRoom(opts: IOpts): Promise<string | null> {
         if (opts.roomType === RoomType.ElementVideo) {
             // Set up video rooms with a Jitsi widget
             await addVideoChannel(roomId, createOpts.name);
-
-            // Reset our power level back to admin so that the widget becomes immutable
-            const room = client.getRoom(roomId);
-            const plEvent = room?.currentState.getStateEvents(EventType.RoomPowerLevels, "");
-            await client.setPowerLevel(roomId, client.getUserId(), 100, plEvent);
         }
     }).then(function() {
         // NB createRoom doesn't block on the client seeing the echo that the
diff --git a/test/createRoom-test.ts b/test/createRoom-test.ts
index 5846823cfd0..c37edaff86a 100644
--- a/test/createRoom-test.ts
+++ b/test/createRoom-test.ts
@@ -37,35 +37,21 @@ describe("createRoom", () => {
         setupAsyncStoreWithClient(WidgetStore.instance, client);
         jest.spyOn(WidgetUtils, "waitForRoomWidget").mockResolvedValue();
 
-        const userId = client.getUserId();
         const roomId = await createRoom({ roomType: RoomType.ElementVideo });
-
         const [[{
             power_level_content_override: {
-                users: {
-                    [userId]: userPower,
-                },
-                events: {
-                    "im.vector.modular.widgets": widgetPower,
-                    [VIDEO_CHANNEL_MEMBER]: videoMemberPower,
-                },
+                events: { [VIDEO_CHANNEL_MEMBER]: videoMemberPower },
             },
-        }]] = mocked(client.createRoom).mock.calls as any;
+        }]] = mocked(client.createRoom).mock.calls as any; // no good type
         const [[widgetRoomId, widgetStateKey, , widgetId]] = mocked(client.sendStateEvent).mock.calls;
 
-        // We should have had enough power to be able to set up the Jitsi widget
-        expect(userPower).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(widgetPower);
-        // and should have actually set it up
+        // We should have set up the Jitsi widget
         expect(widgetRoomId).toEqual(roomId);
         expect(widgetStateKey).toEqual("im.vector.modular.widgets");
         expect(widgetId).toEqual(VIDEO_CHANNEL);
 
         // All members should be able to update their connected devices
         expect(videoMemberPower).toEqual(0);
-        // Jitsi widget should be immutable for admins
-        expect(widgetPower).toBeGreaterThan(100);
-        // and we should have been reset back to admin
-        expect(client.setPowerLevel).toHaveBeenCalledWith(roomId, userId, 100, undefined);
     });
 });