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All that resistance is to make sure the smoke is delayed in getting out of the box! This gives you time and opportunity to keep keying it to make sure you smoke as many of those insanely expensive bjt's as you can! LOL This is good for repeat business and does away with the need to pad a bill you legitmately need to replace those smoked transistors.
Smaller resistors would make sure that the cheap resistors smoked long before a transistor smoked and we can not have that! LOL
I am surprised some of these builders do not use carbon comp resistors to make sure things do not last! LOL
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