diff --git a/blueprints/component/index.js b/blueprints/component/index.js
index a5d8fdc9fa8..e93a0089792 100644
--- a/blueprints/component/index.js
+++ b/blueprints/component/index.js
@@ -14,12 +14,10 @@ const OCTANE = process.env.EMBER_VERSION === 'octane';
 // TODO: this should be reading from the @ember/canary-features module
 // need to refactor broccoli/features.js to be able to work more similarly
 // to https://github.com/emberjs/data/pull/6231
-const EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE = OCTANE;
+const EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE = true;
 
 // intentionally avoiding use-edition-detector
 module.exports = {
-  EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE,
-
   description: 'Generates a component.',
 
   availableOptions: [
diff --git a/packages/@ember/-internals/glimmer/tests/integration/components/component-template-test.js b/packages/@ember/-internals/glimmer/tests/integration/components/component-template-test.js
index ead2666701c..e569df0789e 100644
--- a/packages/@ember/-internals/glimmer/tests/integration/components/component-template-test.js
+++ b/packages/@ember/-internals/glimmer/tests/integration/components/component-template-test.js
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import {
   EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE,
   EMBER_MODULE_UNIFICATION,
 } from '@ember/canary-features';
+import { HAS_NATIVE_SYMBOL } from '@ember/-internals/utils';
 
 import { Component, compile } from '../../utils/helpers';
 import { setComponentTemplate, getComponentTemplate } from '../../..';
@@ -74,9 +75,11 @@ if (EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE) {
             setComponentTemplate(compile('foo'), 'foo');
           }, /Cannot call `setComponentTemplate` on `foo`/);
 
-          expectAssertion(() => {
-            setComponentTemplate(compile('foo'), Symbol('foo'));
-          }, /Cannot call `setComponentTemplate` on `Symbol\(foo\)`/);
+          if (HAS_NATIVE_SYMBOL) {
+            expectAssertion(() => {
+              setComponentTemplate(compile('foo'), Symbol('foo'));
+            }, /Cannot call `setComponentTemplate` on `Symbol\(foo\)`/);
+          }
         }
 
         '@test calling it twice on the same object asserts'() {
diff --git a/packages/@ember/-internals/utils/lib/symbol-utils.ts b/packages/@ember/-internals/utils/lib/symbol-utils.ts
index 2ef59bca6a5..324aaa1ed15 100644
--- a/packages/@ember/-internals/utils/lib/symbol-utils.ts
+++ b/packages/@ember/-internals/utils/lib/symbol-utils.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,5 @@ export const HAS_NATIVE_SYMBOL = (function() {
     return false;
   }
 
-  // use `Object`'s `.toString` directly to prevent us from detecting
-  // polyfills as native
-  return Object.prototype.toString.call(Symbol()) === '[object Symbol]';
+  return typeof Symbol() === 'symbol';
 })();
diff --git a/packages/@ember/canary-features/index.ts b/packages/@ember/canary-features/index.ts
index 9099973e3d8..4df22887a0d 100644
--- a/packages/@ember/canary-features/index.ts
+++ b/packages/@ember/canary-features/index.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_FEATURES = {
   EMBER_GLIMMER_FN_HELPER: true,
   EMBER_CUSTOM_COMPONENT_ARG_PROXY: true,
   EMBER_FRAMEWORK_OBJECT_OWNER_ARGUMENT: true,
-  EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE: null,
+  EMBER_GLIMMER_SET_COMPONENT_TEMPLATE: true,
 };
 
 /**