It befuddles me as to why the folks at Meteor chose MongoDB. I know Mongo's marketing was superb, but the product itself is/was so shoddy. Never mind the fact

It befuddles me as to why the folks at Meteor chose MongoDB. I know Mongo's marketing was superb, but the product itself is/was so shoddy. Never mind the fact that you gotta have SQL for almost any robust enterprise app, which, in turn, is such a huge chunk of the market. I just don't understand the hitching of the Meteor wagon to that broke-down MongoDB horse.