Yeah I can see this as a reaction to that trend, as much as I like some of them... and there's a LOT of them by now. Uzaki, Nagatoro, Teasing Master Takagi, Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible. Tsunderes also count IMO, they'd be annoying to deal with in real life.
Funny thing about Nagatoro, she's pretty horrible in her original/pre-serialization version (but still obvious that she likes the MC) that she'd actually fit in THIS series.