Hi. Article writer here. Sourcemaps are pants and a nightmare to deal with.
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Minification’s more useful for web applications, along the lines of: MS Office (e.g. Excel), Zappier, UberEats, Photoshop, the reporting side of analytics (e.g. Google Analytics) where you get all the interactive graphs and maps.
I think many of the disagreements on here would dissolve if they were only considering blogs and similarly small websites.
As a tangent: this is a neat tool! :)
The fact that stuff has to be minified is evil.
Sometimes it's a good idea to minify.
It's still evil