No, sending it to Bittrex is the smartest move by a huge margin. This is the one big exchange that has had our back the whole time. Sending the coins anywhere else would just get them frozen or stolen again immediately. You don't get to decide which decisions were the best ones to make in retrospect.
If you have a 90% chance of winning a poker hand, you don't fold. If later you think you should have folded because you ended up losing... well then you'll make for a terrible poker player. Same logic.
If nothing else sending them to Bittrex puts us in the news yet again and gives us another round of free publicity.