Deleting unused video tracks

I inherited a FCP project from another editor. This one sequence has six video tracks, but there are a couple video tracks that only have one or two clips in them. Is there any benefit to moving those clips down to more populated tracks and deleting the empty tracks?
I'm not clear on the rendering pipeline of FCP and if there'd be any playback or rendering performance boost.

If there are performance issues, they're negligible. The real thing here is sloppiness. Sometimes in the heat of battle one creates extra tracks to park stuff on, sometimes they get left there for no good reason. I always park my timeline on the other monitor, with the browser so that I can expand it vertically and see all the tracks because a lot of my work has a lot of video and audio tracks. Every now and again I'll collapse as much as I can.

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a) if my arrangement contains empty and/or duplicate tracks, sometimes using the Tracks > Delete Unused function won't delete any of them. Or, it will delete of the empty and unused/duplicate but not all of them.
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the future only works on things that are in the
project but not not on the arrange window
I'm talking about the function that's under "Track" in the arrange window -- "delete unused", for deleting empty tracks in the arrange window. What feature are you referring to? Not familiar with this...
so even without output set on the channel its
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delete it, that track is stored in the trash but not
off the drive
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