I fucking hate the whale mini-game, or at least doing it multiple times a world.
it's still bottable. It's still unfun to do endlessly.
it still gives a yuge advantage to autists who will actually tryhard whales.
The meat is still OP.
That said, whaler's jackers are rly fkn good. So is the wax. So are the gildings. Enough that people would definitely still farm whales to some degree exclusively for the non-meat rewards, but nobody would get a huge advantage from eating 10 whales.
The whaling mechanic would also actually be fun if you only had to do it a few times per world per village. Yeet the slabs of meat entirely, or make the meat bad/worthless?
(Same to a much lesser extent for trolls, TBH. It's much more clear-cut with whales than trolls so we shouldn't muddy the water but like lol basically same 4 trolls xdxd)