It is required for certain custom form input types, like Grid and Relationships. That said the current shipping version is a bit overzealous and can cause some conflicts with existing CSS. If your form is not using Grid or Relationships you can get away with setting the parameter include_assets
https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/channel/channel_form/index.html#include-assets to no
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