I had no idea I was putting challenges out, but hey...if they're fun, run with 'em...the whole thing with writing is to actually have fun.  I mean, if you enjoy your story and have fun with it, then that's a sign that readers might do the same, and ultimately, that's what you want, especially if readers are paying money to do it.  The thing with dialogue tags is that they're sometimes unavoidable, but there are different dialogue tags, including morsels of description and also their absence.  If you're writing stuff in which characters are talking a lot to each other in long passages, sometimes it works perfectly to just set up the pattern with dialogue tags in the start and then dispense with them all together.  Harlan Ellison did quite a lot of that in his shorter works.