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Either the first screenshot is having poison on the offhand club trigger the damage, or I've been encountering bugs, because testing the poison damage proc on stationary objects to measure damage does not proc the poison damage when coated on a single wielded flame blade (tested with just flame blade mainhand equipped on a nearby chest with enough HP to not break in one hit, no offhand equipped).

In the following video you gave, you essentially sacrificed your animal form and its associated form ability access just to land thunderwave within the same turn, in other words the equivalent of eating up another spell slot. Doesn't really help my point that the animal combat performance has been completely sidelined to be either a convoluted arcane ward or misty step.

The concentration doesn't make you make tactical choices whatsoever. The choice is always for whatever spell will net you the most damage and kill the target the quickest. In this case, Moonbeam. You nerf Moonbeam, people will go flame Blade instead, and if you nerf that, probably Spike Growth or Flame Sphere. But that won't change the fact one spell will completely eclipse all the other concentration spells. I am completely unconvinced by your weak claim that the tactical choice imposed by concentration is anymore compelling that the tactical choice of combining Entangling Vines with Moon Beam or Flame Sphere's fire field or Moonbeam with Spike Growth. Concentration complete removes the tactical choice of spell combos.

More plainly stated, name the times Barkskin or Entangling Vines will be used relative to the times Moonbeam/Flame Sphere/Flame Blade is used. Name the times a cleric may use their concentration for Bane instead of Bless. Name the times a druid will use Faerie Fire. Close to almost never.

Using consumables or surface to coat weapons is not cheese, and even not doing a backstab from melee range, melee attacks hit more often than spells do, particularly melee CC spells like frightening or Pushing Strike. These are not exploits, merely questions of balance.

You keep saying the class is versatile, which is just code for "I play Eldritch Knight because they're versatile, and you're just not playing it right if you think Battlemaster is better". You say the druid is very unique, but nothing you've shown highlights how they're doing something another class can't do better, and that's ultimately what it comes down to. In a party play based system, where each teammate fills a combat niche, being the hybrid doesn't bring much value. The ability to do a task really well does.