Hopefully hitbtc will be around for a lot longer. Although some people dislike it and claim to have problems withdrawing funds, i have yet to experience any of those issues. Haven't tried it recently, but in the past it was always worked without any issues
No one denying it didn't work in past, we all know it did but services were never up-to the mark. Deposits don't reflect although transaction confirmed, withdrawal never reaches wallet - almost every third user has experienced these problems. Things have started getting worse from second half of 2017. It took 6 days for my TRX to get deposited back in Jan 2018. Meanwhile the value of my TRX went from 0.65 BTC to 1.4 BTC which came down to 0.4 BTC when balance actually get deposited. So HitBTC was shady always but its recent requirement of doing KYC have made the situation more suspicious. It clearly shows HitBTC is broke and trying its best to save funds from where ever it could.