It is not a flaw. As you previously pointed out, you have no experience with "this stuff" or Hardware experience, so you might want to refrain from critiquing things you admittedly know little about.

IF you are using a 7.4V battery solution, then yes, you most likely will be needing external resistors, as they will need to be fairly large to work properly. On the other hand IF you will be using a 3.7V battery solution, and doing the required hack on the CF board, then you should be able to get by with the 2512 SMD resistors.

Once you have the appropriate resistors in place, the rest can be "controlled" either by using RICE or manually editing the contents of the SD card.

The manual does make sense and does have the info you seek, you just don't really understand it.... yet. A CF is not an ideal card for beginners to start out in.