HitBTC reputation was tainted a long time ago that was enough for users to avoid the exchange since then. its withdrawal fee was very high as well even back in 2017, a lot of people already sense they will become a scam exchange one day and it did.
you can already tell there are less users in the exchange that they are not making enough money so deciding to collect fees from inactive users i guess is another way to make money. is logging in at least considered an activity in the exchange?