None of us have direct knowledge of anyone's motives. We can however make reasonable inferences.
you seem to indicate that the journal's policy is only to publish the orthodox view
No, the journal's policy is to publish science, not polemic. Meyer's article was a long and misinformed argument with no results or new scientific conclusions.
And what would be your "reasonable inferences" here?
I read the article. I did not find it at all polemical. Why do you?