If people want to save bytes, they will do it naturally. Everyone has their own coding style. Enforcing 'your way' on others is just patronizing, and shows how little regard you have for others carefully crafted workflow. Sure, avoiding the Wrath of Crockford is fine, and I demand every developer adheres to his always useful comments on the language.
But don't try and be him, by offering very little in depth advice on what 'not to do' in JS. The only people that avoid semicolon use are the ones writing JS1K demos, and actually care about bytes. The rest - they do it to save costs on their high-speed CDN setups they have on their blog.
My point is, there is no need to be religious when we already have a dozen or so packer scripts, and byte-saving scripts, on the web already (JSCrush, Dean Edward's Packer Tool, @cowboy's packify etc.)
Not to mention the already mentioned, and very powerful Closure Compiler. And I could go on, and I urge others to suggest other packers out there at the moment in this discussion.
When I'm hit by a bus, and my code is only understandable by me, then sure, by all means, attack me, and mark my code as obsolete, unusable, and redundant, but at least look through the foot-notes and see I made a developer-friendly version of my code, completely un-minified, obfuscation free, and free of gotchas and unorthodox methods.
Peace.