::update::
so today I decided to give it another try and attempt another withdrawal, and lo and behold, email system is back(!), and my email accounts even showed me countless delivered codes from each and every withdrawal attempt, so maybe there was actually some infrastructure disruption, maybe part of klaus schwab's cyber polygon, who knows.
anyways, I tried to do one withdrawal again, and the process worked like on other platforms, no bells and whistles, even got email confirmation that a withdrawal to specified address is being processed. so I am currently waiting for the predicted 24h period to pass, to see if any excuses or technical nuisances will get thrown my way..
again, my initial post pointed out that the exchange was rather sleek and polished, so if this goes through smoothly, I will might actually recommend the platform, as I can not exclude external factors for the disturbances so far. I will let you know.
just wait for my confirmation for everything having worked out ok before attempting to do business with them.
if it's really a scam, they probably re-activated the email system to lure in new traders, while they might want to feed me excuses like other threads on here have suggested (which have not been ultimately proven beyond any doubt) - if this thing isn't solved (aka. btc transactions done) in 24 hours, chances are 99% this thing is sketchy a.f. / not legit. not having heard from support isn't a good sign in this regard either, as I wrote them before and they have not responded so far.