Minifying those files could slightly lower their size and speed-up their loading/parsing. The online help could be slightly faster. In addition, the size of installation archives could be reduced. I mean "minification" as defined here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minification_(programming)
From the ESC meeting of 11/16/2023: + the problem is that it's not really considered open-source after that, e.g. Debian has problems with obfuscation (Ilmari) + at least when serving them via the web, the gzip compression is already doing a lot of work there, not sure if this is really that important + overall package of the help is 2.3MB, because it's compressed (Olivier) + you should be able to review the source (Ilmari) + minification is making that more difficult + think we don't gain much from this (Olivier) + agree (Ilmari)