The number 1 problem of the current tutorial is that it doesn’t have a step of deployment. Deployment should be step 1 or step 2 of the tutorial because making apps is to let others view them.
The number 2 problem is it doesn’t cover SQL connection. Big time loss again.
Deployment might be the reason meteor failed couple of years ago after meteor decided to stop free&easy deployment to meteor. I guess most people don’t want to pay for Galaxy at least when the app is not making any revenue.
I think this is a good idea, from the Meteor impact, galaxy free tier is coming back.
With regards to the tutorial, there is an effort to update the content by the community, You can open an issue here with your ideas and/or join the slack tutorial channel.
Yes, they are migrating the Blaze tutorials to the new format, join the slack channel to participate in the effort and be involved in the discussion if you’re interested.