Using the Abort Controller

[chozandrias76]

Does using an Abort Controller for your async requests to application resources actually do anything besides handle your data gracefully on the frontend? I'm exploring ways of increasing our performance by canceling redundant requests. I'm probably going to see if we can avoid making the requests in the first place.
Eg.

.extraFetchOptions({
          signal: controller.signal
        })
AND
controller.abort();