I was in the same boat, tried reading tutorials for Angluar/Ember/Backbone/etc and wanted to throw up because of all the complexity and prior web experience/knowledge that they expect you to know. But then tried Meteor and everything there made a lot of sense to me.
Meteor is a great stepping stone to the more complicated JavaScript ecosystem of node/react/angular/webpack etc. I was a huge fan of it when I first started web development, but all its limitations caused me to switch over to using the above mentioned technologies. I highly recommend it to any beginner to web dev!
