It was originally called "OpenClaude" before Anthropic told them to knock that off. Pretty sure "OpenClaw" was eventually picked just to be petty.

No, it was Clawdbot, then Moltbot, then OpenClaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenClaw. It had the "claw" related lobster theme from early on.

Maybe coupled with a nod to manus-mania?

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> most people get the joke

I hope you're right, but from my own personal experience I think you're being way too generous.