Much older cars with metal fuel tanks required this to be done more often. Nowadays file tanks are plastic so rust is not nearly as prevalent, fuel is cleaner also. The fuel pumps house a screen filter to eradicate large debris, followed up by a "lifetime filter." But the need to filter gas beyond that is less than it used to be. Some cars still have fuel filters but the necessity to change a filter every 100k miles goes to show the extremely low need to require it considering the amount of gas that passes through the system in that time frame. That being said, fuel pumps are also set to be a lifetime part. So if you start to experience hesitation or symptoms that are related to a faulty or clogged fuel pump, you simply replace them both. Because the pumps are made so precisely for their application, when they wear down its due to drawing to much amperage from straining against a clogged fuel filter. And because it's better to filter the fuel before you pump it through precision pumps it is best housed in the fuel tank itself before the pump or within it. In a sense you put the horse before the cart.
So unless you test the fuel systems amperage and determine its drawing more amperage than it should or the fuel pressure is slow to build and low at charge, there really is no need because things have just gotten better in the world of fuel and materials for delivering fuel in the vehicle.
I researched a little bit to discover the answer to this question because I haven't seen a fuel filter in forever since 96'. The best answer I could find was a culmination of information that led me to infer what I have just wrote.
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