I've been using Meteor for little over a year now and to me, the real selling point for Meteor was the insane speed, productivity, and almost instant gratificat

I've been using Meteor for little over a year now and to me, the real selling point for Meteor was the insane speed, productivity, and almost instant gratification that results from that speed: all of a sudden you went from having to configure a million different moving parts to just coding, almost forgetting that you are coding in the process, enjoying yourself, and suddenly seeing your features pop out of nowhere. It's quite magical. For someone like me (I'm more of a designer who can code than the opposite), the reactivity, feedback and interaction with your code make the whole process feel much more "hands on", almost like sculpture, in the sense that you are able to poke things and see them react instantly. And that makes all the difference. Yes, many problems do appear once you dive deeper, but I've never used another tool that brought me closer to my ideas than Meteor. And in the end, that is for me the single biggest achievement here.