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I must admit I gave up on SMN pretty quickly in reives (partly because it was so dreadful and partly because I got sick of enmity issues elsewhere) so I don't recall if using lots of wards is rewarded well, but judging by Campaign (and other "contribution-relative reward" systems) and a rep comment a few days ago mentioning that reives were specifically set up to prevent the "bard bot" problem you mention, I suspect the rewards for enhancing in particular are very substandard.
They are, the point of using Wards is to improve your own capability + that of those around you, as Wards affect all players in range in a rieve.
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Pets are the foundation of SMN. As a summoner I'm fragile, I'm not built for meleeing, and my selection of equipment is limited. There's also the argument that if I wanted to get seriously into melee I wouldn't be there as SMN. A loose comparison might be an avatar to a MNK's hand-to-hand weapon - yes, I can punch (melee) things with a degree of success, but without my hand-to-hand weapon (avatar) I'm really losing out. If a MNK's bonuses from their weapon were ignored in rieves, there would be uproar. I would never claim that meleeing isn't possible during rieves for SMN - it certainly is - but it's not why I'm there as a SMN and it's not what I'm good at, so it should not be required if I am to recieve any benefit.
Yes, avatars are the foundation of SMN, but there is absolutely no reason, as I've stated multiple times, not to melee in a rieve. You say you're fragile, and yes, that's true, but avoiding being in the range of some monster's AoE, especially when you're trying to damage the roots, is basically impossible. You are in harms way anyway, so there's no reason not to do it.
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I think we are miscommunicating on your third point. Of course, meleeing and healing in addition to using an avatar is more beneficial than not doing so. However, meleeing and healing are the only significant source of rewards for summoners, and we aren't very good at either. If I was just to stand back and have an avatar deal damage and enhance with wards, I should recieve the same reward as someone else dealing the same damage and performing the same enhancements. Currently I do not. I think, in fact, your comment is the one that indicates that others should benefit more than me for the same contribution - a non-pet job may do the same things as I do, but I recieve nothing for it. My primary tool for doing anything is being completely ignored.
Actually, you should get slightly less, because there are simultaneous actions you could be performing that would further increase your score. if BPs alone gave you the same contribution score as everyone else, meleeing would mean you could get MORE than everyone else- causing there to again, be no reason not to do it.
I'm not saying pet actions SHOULD contribute nothing- not at all - however I also understand the problems SE is trying to avoid, and they are not easy to solve.
All I was trying to say from the beginning is that if you're willing to think outside the box a bit, Summoner can still get decent bayld from rieves.