I have to agree, that instruction manual is worthy of a kit that price.
I find this sort of thing oddly therapeutic. Something about wood and pva that I don't get with plastic kits.
At least it's not small blue foam bricks.

I'm very much in two minds about this kit. it appears to be full of good idea's and smart tricks, incorporating different thicknesses of material in clever ways. On the other hand I can still very clearly see that it's a laser cut set, which, to me at least, does take away from it.