this will not change with Webnovel; too many popular web serials settled down there and since most of em are contractually hog-tied to WN, i doubt they'd repost their content onto SH just to grab the extra straggling audience.
and quite frankly, i don't want that crowd in here. i like the small, homely atmosphere we have here. if you consider this gatekeeping then yes, it is. fuck WN. hate that bitch of a site.