You can't fix stupid.
This is how the board came, straight out of the lighter plug casing when I pulled it apart. I can hear it now on the assembly line... "See what I do is..." (only in something that sounds like hieroglyphics)
And "we wonder" why things like cell phone batteries detonate in the car... To someone familiar with the topology, one would recognize this effectively as changing the circuit into into a PWM device, simply negating the concept of what a buck converter does, with little other consequence... but that's not the point...
Obviously the implications are much further reaching...