Obfuscation is an annoying concept. Here's why.
Bypasses
You can still reverse engineer obfuscated code. You just need to try hard enough: which is bad, considering it's your last line of defense.
Access Control
Traditional codebases that look like gore rely on obfuscation so they do not have to implement advanced access control systems. Once that barrier is removed, you can modify it with free will. It's as simple as flipping a boolean to true.
It's 2025 dude, seriously?
You don't need anything fancy. Just an AWS/Supabase bucket for file storage, proper row level security or permissions, or a licensing system, and multiple lines of defenses. Just upgrade your shit man. Do it, even file encryption would do better then fucking obfuscation.
Obfuscation should be your first line of defense.
Written by darwinkernelpanic, I'm going to go sleep. Contact me at me@naymmm.lol if you want any security audits :)