And so after some digging, and lack of responses on this thread, I finally find the WORK IN PROGRESS for the Wikidata team and their task of creating a better API to mimic the Freebase API and possibly re-use the Freebase query editor:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85181
I just wonder how I can get involved with helping and testing that ?
Thad +ThadGuidry https://www.google.com/+ThadGuidry