I think this is an accurate description of the situation.
That would have been great! Meteor classic was really unique in terms of developer productivity, I’ve seen many frameworks and technologies in the past and it was really a breath of fresh air, it just worked..
What is interesting about Meteor classic is that it opened the floor for many entrepreneurs and non-technical people to start building apps with little programming background and I think there is a long-tail of potential developers that perhaps could have been monetized..
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But echoing what @bsbechtel said above, I also think that advanced users tend to be more vocal, active and demanding and might resulted in blind bias toward them…