AFAIK it's only about Starter Access being able to join Club Access (unless another one was reported?). But otherwise launching the server with /lan command works and me and a few other people are able to connect and play, and we all have starter access. EDIT: OF course, if you don't want to, you do...

I literally joined to say that you could try and develop the server using LAN connection..? As I have Starter Access (the free version) and I could easily create a server login, launch a server and access it through LAN.