Do they often remove XCP from Shapeshift?
Haha, no, not sure what's going on there. Perhaps it's temporary or there simply wasn't enough volume to justify keeping it listed. I guess we'll find out in the near future.
Another community director has confirmed to me that he was in communication with ShapeSift a couple weeks ago and dropping support wasn't mentioned, in fact, they said that they were going to set up a new server.