[WorldMaker]

Anyone who believes minification counts as "proper" obfuscation misunderstands both. Minification is not obfuscation. They have different goals. Most "good" obfuscators are the exact opposite of minification: to obscure business logic they expand the code into sub-parts more akin to assembly language than the original logic. "Good" obfuscation is much more than just using shorter variable names everywhere.

Minification is especially not sufficient for obfuscation in a world with pretty printers embedded into every Dev Tools in every browser.

Minification is just about reducing the size of the output. Any business that truly cares about the safety of their IP should look into "proper" obfuscators.

(Personally, I don't think obfuscators are generally worth the build time and their output worth the extra bandwidth either, but yes there I understand that security theater generally beats performance concerns.)