>The file size doesn't need to be small for Github, they don't care. Likewise it doesn't need to be small for the extension since the extension is stored locally, not loaded over the network. Take your malware elsewhere.
It’s minified like this because it was being distributed to 100,000’s of users in the crx state it came from, as a courtesy to not waste their data / HDD space. Google was fine with it in this state for 5 years. Take your slander elsewhere.