So that's why the difficulty is down on everything.
Why don't nicehash miners just mine like everyone else

Because more of them are single GPU users that do not know how to setup different wallet than BTC and then to find pools to join, download the appropriate miners, setup them and so on.
It's not so easy to do when you are not tech savvy.
On the other note even if they are hacked, they will be back or someone else will take their place. It's very lucrative business and they are/were the market leaders.