Plethora of pup problems

Pets and trusts not counting towards omen objectives
ISP:Comcast
Type of Internet Connection: Cable
Internet Connection Speed: 100mbps
Date & Time: various times over the last several months
Frequency: Always
Character Name: Urmom
Race: Taru
World: Shiva
Job: Pup/whm
Area and Coordinates: All over the place
Party or Solo: Party or solo
NPC Name: None
Monster Name: Various monsters from high level content to level 0 starter mobs
In-Game Time: all the time

Problem #1 omen objectives
Steps:
1. Send out automatons in omen.
2. Watch them ws and skillchain

Results:
None of the ws or skillchain or magic dmg related objectives count. Similar happens with trusts but it's kind of hit or miss which ones work or not

Problem #2 Critical hits
Steps:
1. Send automaton to hit low level enemies and record results.
2. Do it again with triple thunder maneuvers with all 3 dynamos

Results:
1. No ranged attacks ever receive a critical hit despite melee hits being at near 100% critical hit rate
2. Melee critical hits receive an incredibly small (like 5% or so) increase in damage suggesting that they are not receiving the significant boost to the caps of the multiplier that compares attack and defense that players and monsters receive.

Problem #3 base damage
Steps:
1: Send automaton to hit low level enemies and record results.
2: Vary automaton level and base stats via gear and maneuvers and repeat step 1

Results:
There is absolutely no change in damage from just ilvl meanwhile melees often double or more the base damage from level 99. In fact it seems like there is no direct change in damage from level at all and it's all based on base stats. Since base stat increases have to be balance around the other things they do like weaponskill modifiers this results in incredibly small increases non ws dmg like 10% or so. It also means mobs that can inflict decent amounts of stat down double nerf your dmg both decreasing the ws mod and the base dmg and well triple I guess cause fstr. Notably Golden Kist lowers them enough that automatons end up doing less dmg then back at level 75 meanwhile melees suffer much less.

Problem #4 Ventriloquy
Steps:
1: grab a bunch of monsters
2. Use Ventriloquy

results:
1. The help text says Swaps the enmity of the current target between master and automaton however each time I did it it merely swapped enmity of the last monster the master took action on not the current target if you can say there is a target when using an ability on yourself
2. While not precisely a bug based on the help text it seems highly odd that this merited ability would only work on one mob when bst's non merited one works on all especially given pup is a commonly used tank now but can only really use single target hate moves. Extra especially given the tendency to create bosses that spawn additional creatures that invariable target the master who popped instead of the thing actually tanking the boss