If you do not like the Whale digger, the best attack on the whalers would be to provide new uses for clams. A light weight android client for example would be great way to make clams more usable/ tradable.
I am new to clams and I have to agree that their should be more uses for clams other than bet on just-dice. The wallet is not a huge problem since the blockchain is only 700M. The bootstrap made the download fairly easy and fast.
If you plan on building a CLAM service you'd better warm up to the Kings and Queens of CLAM or "they" will blackball your legit service if they don't agree with your private business plan.
I would not recommend people to build on CLAM at this point until some major changes happen. (Speaking from experience)