Did you follow the SPR thread? multiple people were having wallet issues like no syncing due to the lack of support for SPR at that point. There was no way that holding in SPR was any better than Bittrex. That's why coins said he was in talk to with bittrex to facilitate the process.
Holding your coins in a wallet is ALWAYS better than keeping them in an exchange. In fact, you didn't need to synchronize the wallet, you just needed to send your SPR to an address of which you had its private key. You could do that even with a paper wallet.
Yes he posted it 1 week before swap in this thread and didnt even bother to post in the frontpage. I'm happy that you were able to do the swap in time, but many of us were not.
Yes he did offer HLM to Bittrex after the snapshot, but do you seriously think Bittrex is going to sort through thousands of transactions and balances? After the swap, people were moving their balances to Bittrex to dump SPR. Why would an exchange do your work for you and sort through all these transactions to figure out who owns what and when they owned it.
The correct way to do this would have been to come to an agreement beforehand and swap at the same time, and if that wasn't possible then give adequate notice and make sure the information is well publicized. You guys cannot seriously defend that this was handled well. The fact that alot of people were left out is a testament to this.
It is still your fault. It was never confirmed that Bittrex was going to support the snapshot and it was said many times that if you were not going to be up to date with the project you must move your coins to the wallet to avoid problems. In fact, anyone who had been asking and had doubts was directly recommended to leave the coins in the wallet.