diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/winrm_pexpect.yaml b/changelogs/fragments/winrm_pexpect.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5febee6de66..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/winrm_pexpect.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-- winrm - Only use pexpect for auto kerb auth if it is installed and contains the required kwargs - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43462
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py
index 127c76dfd39..14984372144 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ DOCUMENTATION = """
 """
 
 import base64
+import inspect
 import os
 import re
 import traceback
@@ -116,19 +117,12 @@ from ansible.errors import AnsibleFileNotFound
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import boolean
 from ansible.module_utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlunsplit
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
-from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type, PY3
+from ansible.module_utils.six import binary_type
 from ansible.plugins.connection import ConnectionBase
 from ansible.plugins.shell.powershell import leaf_exec
 from ansible.utils.hashing import secure_hash
 from ansible.utils.path import makedirs_safe
 
-# getargspec is deprecated in favour of getfullargspec in Python 3 but
-# getfullargspec is not available in Python 2
-if PY3:
-    from inspect import getfullargspec as getargspec
-else:
-    from inspect import getargspec
-
 try:
     import winrm
     from winrm import Response
@@ -145,18 +139,11 @@ except ImportError as e:
     HAS_XMLTODICT = False
     XMLTODICT_IMPORT_ERR = e
 
-HAS_PEXPECT = False
 try:
     import pexpect
-    # echo was added in pexpect 3.3+ which is newer than the RHEL package
-    # we can only use pexpect for kerb auth if echo is a valid kwarg
-    # https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43462
-    if hasattr(pexpect, 'spawn'):
-        argspec = getargspec(pexpect.spawn.__init__)
-        if 'echo' in argspec.args:
-            HAS_PEXPECT = True
+    HAS_PEXPECT = True
 except ImportError as e:
-    pass
+    HAS_PEXPECT = False
 
 # used to try and parse the hostname and detect if IPv6 is being used
 try:
@@ -256,7 +243,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
         internal_kwarg_mask = set(['self', 'endpoint', 'transport', 'username', 'password', 'scheme', 'path', 'kinit_mode', 'kinit_cmd'])
 
         self._winrm_kwargs = dict(username=self._winrm_user, password=self._winrm_pass)
-        argspec = getargspec(Protocol.__init__)
+        argspec = inspect.getargspec(Protocol.__init__)
         supported_winrm_args = set(argspec.args)
         supported_winrm_args.update(internal_kwarg_mask)
         passed_winrm_args = set([v.replace('ansible_winrm_', '') for v in self.get_option('_extras')])