diff --git a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
index cdf0779..9200607 100644
--- a/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
+++ b/release-notes/VERSION-2.x
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ Project: jackson-datatype-jsr353
 === Releases ===
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+2.10.5 (not yet released)
+
+#18: revert #16 as it can cause issues if target type is `JsonObject`
+ (reported by sithmein@github)
+
 2.10.4 (03-May-2020)
 
 #16: Null being deserialized as null literal instead of JsonValue.NULL
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/JsonValueDeserializer.java b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/JsonValueDeserializer.java
index dd11816..41b1315 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/JsonValueDeserializer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/JsonValueDeserializer.java
@@ -38,10 +38,13 @@ public JsonValue deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt)
         }
     }
 
+    // 02-Jun-2020, tatu: Alas, as per [#18], can not do quite like so...
+    /*
     @Override
     public JsonValue getNullValue(final DeserializationContext ctxt) {
         return JsonValue.NULL;
     }
+    */
 
     @Override
     public Object deserializeWithType(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt,
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/DeserViaCreatorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/DeserViaCreatorTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b8c95d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/DeserViaCreatorTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+package com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype.jsr353;
+
+import javax.json.JsonObject;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+
+public class DeserViaCreatorTest extends TestBase
+{
+    static class Pojo {
+        String text;
+        JsonObject object;
+
+        @JsonCreator
+        public Pojo(@JsonProperty("s") String s, @JsonProperty("o") JsonObject o) {
+            text = s;
+            object = o;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public void testCreatorDeser() throws Exception
+    {
+        final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper()
+                .registerModule(MODULE);
+        Pojo p = mapper.readerFor(Pojo.class)
+            .readValue( "{\"s\": \"String\", \"o\": { \"a\": 1, \"b\": \"2\" } }");
+        assertNotNull(p);
+
+        p = mapper.readerFor(Pojo.class).readValue("{\"s\": \"String\"}");
+        assertNotNull(p);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/SimpleDeserializeTest.java b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/SimpleDeserializeTest.java
index 79d97a6..d3c2795 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/SimpleDeserializeTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/datatype/jsr353/SimpleDeserializeTest.java
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ public void testBinaryNode() throws Exception
     }
 
     // for [datatype-jsr353#16]
+    // 02-Jun-2020, tatu: Alas, as per [#18], can not do quite like so...
+/*
     public void testNullNode() throws Exception
     {
         final String serializedNull = MAPPER.writeValueAsString(JsonValue.NULL);
@@ -106,4 +108,5 @@ public void testNullNode() throws Exception
         final JsonValue deserializedNull = MAPPER.readValue(serializedNull, JsonValue.class);
         assertEquals(JsonValue.NULL, deserializedNull);
     }
+    */
 }