[johnwalkr]

It’s not about the price of two resistors, it’s just incompetence when updating the design from micro-usb to usb-c.

[MBCook]

I agree. I think they took an old design for the USB part of things and just swapped the connector too.

[johnwalkr]

Yes, I think it's a case of the engineer finding a connector that doesn't expose the CC pins (where the resistors go), and not even realizing that something is missing when they update a design from microusb to usb-c.