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"Sacrificing the performance so a miniscule percentage of them can poke around a little easier?"

Wondering how to reconcile this with the never-ending didactic missives from software developers about writing code that others can easily understand. Generally, the affection for verbose languages and disdain for terse ones.

There is also a trust problem. How can we be sure that minification is only for the purpose of performance and not also for the purpose of obfuscation. For example, from the user's perspective, performance is routinely sacrificed to allow for advertising. Users must wait and allow their computer's resources and network bandwidth to be usurped for telemetry, ad auctions and ads they really do not want to look at. This is almost always orchestrated using Javascript.