discontinued the NiceHashlet, and ultimately revealed that Hashlets didn't mine
The nice (pun intended) thing about hashlets was that Zen TOS had this statement weeks before the NiceHash debacle:
"Selecting a Pool
does not imply physically or electronically mining at the selected Pool".
People don't read, think, or question anything until it robs them blind and even then some prefer to shill for the robber.
It wouldn't have been a problem if, for example with a similar amount of expenses they would've mined bitcoin and paid that out. Although it's getting dodgy, you're actually asking them to do "mining" for you and payout. Their model wasn't well thought through with this Nicehash thing because it started going over what they would've gotten mining elsewhere.