I don’t have any links, but I think that Meteor will move towards using NPM more and become a set of NPM packages itself, eventually. Furthermore it will use what already exists and works, like React for the view layer and maybe even Webpack? We’ll see.
I think MDG’s goal still is to build the best/ most dev friendly/ modern/ cool/ realtime/ reliable/ etc. web framework out there Simple
I was thinking that Apollo is a SPI to remove the hard dependency against MongoDB and allow us to use any GraphQL supported data stores. Much like JDBC does for Java Databases.