[sanitycheck]

Sadly, not minifying source code can often lead to your idiot customer discovering that their web app is not a magic binary blob and complaining that it's "insecure! anyone can see how it works!", which then in turn leads to your idiot PM agreeing to a new "obfuscate all code" feature without bothering to involve anyone technical.

Deliberately obfuscated JS is far more evil, take it from someone who's had to debug 3rd-party obfuscated JS libs.

[gustavus]

At that point idiot PMs just need a technical discussion in the closet for an hour having the concept explained to them with a sock full of oranges.

[sanitycheck]

Finally, a good reason to return-to-office.