Most obfuscation techniques are lossy. You lose information such as project structure, names of files, data types, variable names and so on. Decompilation and deobfuscation might give you a shadow of the original source code but the benefits are overstated because the advantages over working directly with assembly code aren't that big. Most of the time is spent finding the dozen relevant functions out of 10000. If you truly need access to the entire source code your time is better spent on an opensource project.
> You lose information such as project structure, names of files, data types, variable names and so on.
You lose half of those by not having debugging symbols and the other half by stripping the binary. This is all lost during compilation already, not due to explicit obfuscation. If you've ever worked with a compiler that is mediocre at generating debug symbols, you'll know it's the compiler doing extra work that provides all these, not obfuscation that removes them.
