I’ll answer my question.
I never used to, and one day my MIL commented that I don’t remove them, and she found that unusual. I never even thought to do it before her comment. I didn’t know it was a thing. Now, I pull of a few sometimes, but very little.
I just became curious if most people were similar to my MIL in how they prepared celery.
@filmfann Do you use a peeler? You can just grab them at the top of a piece of celery with a knife and pull them off.