All our updates with Meteor were pretty smooth and we’ve been using it for couple of years now, we just follow the readme and we’re good to go. But I understand this might not be everyone’s experience due to the inherited environmental complexity so I’m not dismissing the issues.
However I agree with Benjamn’s sentiment here, I don’t think it’s professional nor courteous to highjack the announcement thread to push on issues, we all build products here and understand that this is not the right channel. I think opening Github issue and showing some patience with a dose of gratitude toward Open Source tech and developers is the right attitude.
Bringing the thread back to it’s topic, I’d like to re-iterate our delight with 1.7 and the progress that has been done on Meteor over the last couple of years and we look forward to the next release!