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You pretty much have to, in my experience. The monsters are often optimized for min/max players, and if played intelligently will wipe a group focused on playing as characters with no knowledge of what they're fighting. Also you always have that one player that reads the adventure (one offered to send me stats for a creature I had interacting with the party!)
I hate when people pre read the adventure, what's the point of playing? I get it if it's to guide someone new through to try to get them into the hobby, but that's about the only example I can think of.