>#3: The fact that the default dependency injection mechanism breaks when minified means it should never have been included. If this mechanism sneaks in anywhere in your app (and there are plenty of third party libs that use it), it wont start breaking until you bundle and minify the code, at which point you may already be in production.

I think the real mistake in that scenario is not minifying the code until "in production". You should minify your code from the day one.

Although I agree that the "not safe for minifying" mechanism shouldn't have been included in AngularJS.

On the other (other) hand, it's pretty abhorrent that minifying is something that developers need to actually place any thought into..