What's wrong with CAE?

By way of example:

In the reading part of CAE test, which was giving an outline of the existing guide books publishers, they were asking: "The guide books of which publisher are least numerous?"

It took me AGES to find the answer. All due to the fact that the key word "few" was buried insіde the longest sentence, describing other features of the publisher.

Well, I guess anyone to pass CAE is likely to be familiar with emphatic structures. Actually, to emphasize on something we need to put it in the beginning or in the end of a sentence. I guess, the authors of the CAE are likely to know this too.

I would say, that writing skills of a person who puts tiny "few" in the middle of a long sentence, and hopes for it to be spotted by a reader right away, ss...suggest of incompetence.

Since the purpose of the test is not to check how attentive someone is, but to monitor his language skills, what is the point of such tasks? Hardly there can be someone wishing to pass CAE test and at the same time wondering what "few" means.

What is more, exactly such tasks give rise to numerous strategies of passing the FCE CAE CPE tests, to the strategies not relevant to having language skills.