Meteor has been perfect for the single page web apps I've been making as side projects. I don't know any other frameworks where I could have completed an encrypted chat application as fast and painless as I did with meteor.

All the things mentioned as "going beyond basics" seem like things that meteor was never designed for and that we have other tools to handle.

I really feel like the problem is with the people behind meteor trying to make it THE framework, instead of just being a framework that excels at a single purpose.