I get that remark in the absolute, but here we are talking about an article about how to get and compile CDE from source on a Debian 10. In which case your fear

I get that remark in the absolute, but here we are talking about an article about how to get and compile CDE from source on a Debian 10. In which case your fear that setting up Xft font rendering via X resources is an insurmontable task to get a modern and usable system that you are literally building is maybe a little bit off-topic.