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You don't need any fiber in the human diet. It was a marketing thing that everyone bought into for some reason and now it's dogma.
There are certain, very limited diets where you can be relatively healthy without fiber. Most notable is carnivore (although people dispute that it's healthy), but there are a few others.
However, the VAST majority of diets, including all of the common ones, need (and often contain) fiber. However, the amount you need is also going to vary from person to person. If you completely avoid processed foods, you're probably getting enough already.
going to guess you're probably in your late-20s to mid-30s and haven't had to shit for a week without shitting.
wait til you're in your 40s or 50s. that opinion you have is going to test you.
I imagine since you're talking about bowel movement that you think that constipation is alleviated by the consumption of fiber, but there are no RCTs that prove that that is the case. It is in fact rather the opposite:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22969234/
I personally do not experience constipation.
first of all, you cited a clinical, not a medical study.
second it only had 63 cases.
this trial is bullshit.
just because you cite from pubmed doesn't mean you know wtf you're talking about.
thirdly the author is Kok-Sun Ho, a colorectal surgeon from Singapore. you know what Singapore is well known for in the medical/pharmaceutical community? it's a bake shop. big pharma buys doctors in Singapore to site these clinical trials as a way to discredit legitimate medical studies so they can force open a market for their new "wonder drug".
go eat some fiber, you're full of shit.
What drug ensues from fixing idiopathic constipation? Perhaps you have better studies you could share?