Absolutely. There are places I've avoided submitting to because I'd have to functionally join their club and I don't have the spoons. (Particularly, voice & video chat is something that's stressful for me & so I try to limit it to groups I'm already comfortable with.)
Well, we've got a lot of small presses with discords because we've got a lot of small presses, right? Basically, the economics of self-publishing has gotten good enough that it doesn't take much capital to run an imprint. So we should expect some to pop up with completely different styles, as well.