it's a tough call to make based on a foamie doing the puff and burn routine. which foamie was it? i've seen lots of comments lately regarding hobbyking RTF stuff where the ESC's and motors are just junk. their RTF motor gliders are cheap cheap cheap but the motors and controllers are practically unuseable. the chinese ESC's (Hobbywing, Turnigy, Maybach, ExceedRC, etc.) aren't expensive but i don't recall ever hearing about them being unreliable, surprising as that may be. In fact they've been surprisingly reliable for myself and others that use them.
all of this stuff works based on speed of control signals and soundness of connections. you've got to really ask yourself if something is necessary before introducing another layer of connections into the system.
regards,
bart