The point is that the two are competing priorities. You still care about minimizing end user download size, but you also care about your own developer experienc

The point is that the two are competing priorities. You still care about minimizing end user download size, but you also care about your own developer experience (and concomitant velocity). Different people may weight those things differently, but it is unlikely that someone would assign a weight of zero to one or the other (so people are unlikely to just throw up their hands and say "no minification").