I've seen some minifiers that can restructure your code... replace if{} with a ternary ?: operator or use boolean shortcutting to replace the whole conditional

I've seen some minifiers that can restructure your code... replace if{} with a ternary ?: operator or use boolean shortcutting to replace the whole conditional with a ||, and so on. It's supposed to never do anything that actually affects the logic, but that sort of stuff scares me.