Finally got the last of my NiceHash balance out, and am using PhoenixMiner with direct mining pools from now on.
Getting paid in BTC was my preference, but seeing how unstable the dev is on Reddit and this forum completely tanked my confidence in them. Hell, putting that together with the founders' history makes me question exactly WHERE their BTC stash is even coming from.
Integrity matters even in this business. And NH has demonstrated none of that over the past 36 hours.
Yes that was a bit of a rollercoaster of nonsense from them, especially for what should simply have been a short post saying "out of an abundance of caution we are temporarily removing the PhoenixMiner plugin" yet turned into several extremely long and unprofessional Reddit posts with associated comments over here.
Their admins and the owner to their credit were quite professional, even if they do appear to have misattributed that .org website (and the corresponding files with mismatching hash) to PhoenixMiner. That they let that dev rabidly rant about "paid shill attacks" or post multi-page, semi-coherent ramblings on their behalf doesn't do them any credit mind you.
They overreacted a little initially, and seemed confused in their messaging, but that dev took it to a whole new level of batshit crazy.