the heart of our complaint is with the type of reward rather than with the size of it.
if giving away 14-16 AP is too big and could unbalance the game, then better to reward us with 6-8 instead ... but that's still much better than getting 200-400 gold, and is very usuful for collecting raw ressources
I agree, however it has been decided to remove AP completely...Quest are now regarded as simply secondary sources of income, but not an incentive to push a player to another level by rewarding AP. You just need to get lucky and find a quest which asks you to do what you do normally, then its worth it for you ...
There will be later a storyline quest system with much better rewards which I hope will make everyone much happier