Reducing the entire problem to "(current) block-creators decide everything" is oversimplifying to a dangerous degree.
OK, so who should "decide everything", if not the coin's stakeholders?
Exactly that is what i thought too. Though i think that danger is now avoided isn't it? Price stabilizes and the fork is dead or am i missing something?
I think this is what you are missing:
Before this whale digger appeared, around 72k old addresses had been dug up. That's 2.2% of the initial distribution.
Now that the whale digger has apparently finished, around 178k old addresses have been dug up. That's 5.5% of the initial distribution.
There's 94.5% of the initial distribution still undug.
People seem to be thinking that the whale digger's 3.3% is somehow significant, rather than being only 1/30th of the initial distribution.
This is a single guy who probably abused a bunch of faucets. Think about what happens if the Silk Road wallet ever gets dug up. Or the MtGox wallet. BTC-e. SatoshiDice. MyBitcoin. Pirate's Ponzi wallet. The various big mining pools. And so on. There are many more potential whale diggers out there.
BAC was actively petitioning the government to release the confiscated Silk Road private keys so he could dig the associated CLAMs.
tl;dr: one guy digging 3.3% of the initial distribution != "danger is now avoided". His actions are tiny in the scale of things.
Edit: some people find a graphical representation easier to understand. Everyone was freaking about about the impact of the orange area, but we're supposed to somehow not worry about the yellow area?
I do agree with the sentiment that some have expressed that We Survived the Great Digging Panic of 2015 and with the right response that can make the coin stronger and more resilient. But then you still have some people approaching it more from a FUD perspective ("Okay, but what about the next whale digger?! zOMG!!"), sadly.
Why do you call that "FUD"? 94.5% of the initial distribution is still unclaimed. Are you arguing with that number, or you think it doesn't matter that this massive inflation we've just seen could happen again repeatedly in the future?
Though i think that is the rule everyone agreed on when going into clams. It was nice claiming clams when it was usefull for oneself but now it's not not convenient anymore because clammers fear diluting of their wealth.
Of course, the one with the power can decide but if the fork becomes reality it would look like clams and their community would be corrupted. Sure, i can speak easy about it when i don't hold clams at the moment but it sounds like misuse of position. Taking an advantage but negating the same right to others after that, locking profits for oneself while others are blocked from their clams. If i would own a good wallet and would find out that it is worthless now then i would be pretty angry about such selfishness of a community.
Guess the decision might be already made then. Only a couple of the biggest clammers will decide what will happen i guess.