I guess thats the point. I don't need to play an uber-powered divine caster in metal armor...I already have a cleric. However, I also don't feel the need to have a slavish devotion to "canon." And if I did want some uber-character, a druid would not be my first choice. Hell, my straight fighter is far better than my druid, not to mention my cleric and wizard.
I like a bit of creativity. My druid wears some metal armor, doesn't use a shield (went with parry skill instead). Cultural choices, no slavishly adhering to something written in a book somewhere. When you play PNP games, do you yell at people for trying things that are outside the rules as well? "YOu can't do that, the PH says so!" Frankly, I find that more than a little narrow-minded. Isn't the point to have fun and RP, not to simply follow a set of rules blindly like a bunch of drones? I mean, NWN already imposes so many restrictions, by its very nature as a limited computer game, that its hard to "break out of the mold" for ANY class. Do we need to stifle creativity even further? Maybe some people don't WANT to play the same kind of druid as everyone else. And now thats a crime worth reporting people to a DM over? Pathetic.
What if someone made an "elementalist" druid, who took the ore from the Earth, stoked the Fire with Air, worked the ore into steel and quenched it in Water, and used it? Would you scream at them for breaking "canon?" Or would you praise them for some creativity?
Personally, I feel that forcing people to play one specific way because its written in a book somewhere smacks of several governmental types I won't mention here for fear of being banned.