I think their design goals is to make it easy and simple to build web applications. If they are building their own ecosystem its because they feel it is necessary to do so in order to achieve that goal.
This talk gives a good intro to Meteor and after watching it, really doesn't seem like they the kind of guys to not embrace NPM if it could work as well for them as building out their own.
I am interested in this. Could you reference something specific to this video that speaks to the kind of guys they are and how these character traits relate to the decision to not embrace npm? (I just don't want to go digging in the video) Or are you just talking about general intelligence?
