Yeah, I completely disagree. 
Up front yes, on the long run not as much. See the advantage druid forms have is that they all share the same base skeleton with the same exact animations. From a development perspective that is a huge workflow bonus. All they got to do is design different skins.
Which, don’t get me wrong, do take time, but as we’ve seen from blizzard so far, they’re artist team seems to be better and better at shipping out fresh new designs even with minor patches.
The animation team though… Wherever they can save time and reuse preexisting models, they will. And that’s a general video game dev thing, not specific to blizzard or wow.
Hence why I’m thinking DH would require so much more work than any other class. They need new animations, different VO for emotes, DH/race specific skins and on top of that, demon forms specific to every race. Imagine you’re a tauren DH and all of a sudden you like night elf.
Thinking about it, demon form of all races sounds sick.
I’m not convinced you’re on solid ground.
At the outset of Dragonflight, I’d agree with you on Shamans. Following the narrative arc though, with Vyranoth joining the Aspects, I’m not so sure they’re incompatible.
Several races have different lore reasons/justifications/rationalisations on why they can play a class, and where the source of the power is drawn from. If Kul Tiran can tap into the drusty craziness for a very different type of Druidism to Night Elves, for example, there can absolutely be a rationalisation for Dracthyr - even if it is as hand-wavey as channelling the power of the green dragon flight.
Besides, your last line about already being granted ‘powers of similar, if not greater potency’ applies equally to almost every class Dracthyr can play. Evokers are the most gifted among Dracthyr, with access to the magic of all dragon flights… but if you can play Mage (with access to Arcane magic of the blue/red flights), why not Druid? (Rhetorical: surely about the additional assets/work required.) It’s certainly more sensible than Dracthyr Warlock or Priest.
I would still not unferstand only, if lightforged can be warlock but not druid or shaman due to light - how come light do nothing to warlock or shadow priest XD
Because the game mechanics can’t provide debuffs due to some “minor” matters like a combination of a race and a class/specialization. You don’t see playable demon hunters exploding at the attempt at metamorphosis, void elves don’t hallucinate or go on murder spree due to the voices in the head, neither of them suffer from actively harmful physical mutations, and I won’t even start on how being an active vessel of corruption (e.g. every priest with idols of the Old Gods in tow) is not reflected by each and every NPC shunning you like they do DKs in their starting quests. It’s just game mechanics that sadly have nothing to do with how it is lore-wise.
Lore-wise, unless it was changed a while ago, since they are in service of the light they cannot hear the call of the elements, as the two powers tend to not share hosts.
They likely can be Death Knights because the light leaves their body after their death, which after that can be brought back.
Warlocks I assume are the remnants of the burning legion who were tentatively allowed to stay on the Exodar. As they wanted to unlock the class to all races they likely just left this plothole as explaining it would make little sense.
Orcs seek power, so Druid does not really fit them as a race. Shaman fit them better because they make a pact with the elements for power, while the same does not work with Elune.
Undead is a good question, but there I guess the reason that they can be considered a manifestation of death just makes them unable to form a connection with nature.
That is the rational explanation to it. The logical one is that classes like shaman, druid and paladin all have extra assets that need to be made, which they are reluctant to invest into (plus they have to think out some sort of lore explanation to try and make it seem like they are trying).
The only classes that we are certain won’t be shared between every race are Evoker and Demon Hunter.
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