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 "inse

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.