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It is unethical to misrepresent your involvement. I personally see no reason to punish publishing papers with a high degree of the division of labor but I do take issue with the idea that everyone contributed the same amount of work.

Co-authorship no longer means anything. If academics insist on counting points, then let the primary author allocate 10 points across all the coauthors.

We also have a system lets academics collect points, without risk of losing them. A badly researched paper or unethical practice should cost points and destroy reputations.

> essentially just checking the language/graphics

I'm outside academia, but that seems unethical to me. As you said, the co-authorship brings the real value. These people want tenured positions not a few hundred dollars.

if you check language/graphics or anything similar you are an editor, not an author.