Minification is vital. It has been widely reported that an extra 100ms in latency costs Amazon 1% of their sales. Google found that 500ms of extra latency reduced traffic by 20%. Optimising page load time is one of the cheapest and simplest ways of improving user experience and so your business.

Sacrificing profits and UX for a few hypothetical developers is lunacy. If you really want to share the wealth and let newbie developers read your source, blog about it or submit it to Github - then you can include explanation of your design and make it far easier for them to get the interesting bits.