Yes, there are advantages to being decoupled from the underlying framework, as you point out. If you're a Ruby on Rails shop, Meteor is probably not for you.

Yes, there are advantages to being decoupled from the underlying framework, as you point out. If you're a Ruby on Rails shop, Meteor is probably not for you. But I think people under-appreciate Meteor's value proposition of not having to piece together multiple frameworks -- especially in JavaScript world, which seemingly produces a new framework every other day.