I hear you on that. The only reason I even did it with ZEC is I knew that having one of the first piece of a coin on the exchange would probably cover the cost of the contract and it pretty much did. It's insane the markup they charge and you can't even pick where your hash goes or verify that you you actually are mining at that rate in a pool. It's so easy to just download the nicehash autominer I usually recommend it to people that want an "easy" mining option. Realistically learning how to script a bat file and set launch parameters can be annoying for anyone not used to it or familiar with the general concepts. It's also unfortunately pretty much always better to use a linux OS too. I get why these services exist, I just think that they all drastically over value their contracts.