You need to classify on what type of mining because if you are already in the crypto market for so long, you will know that there are 3 types of mining. First the real mining of bitcoins, this isn't profitable anymore for those new timers. Second, the alt coin mining and this is now the most popular type of mining. And last the cloud mining, better to stay away from this.
As for option 3, you're likely to end up scammed. One "Easy" way to mine is via Altcoins, Ethereum is a good alternative. The Nicehash miner is pretty
reasonable, it mines altcoins using a variety of algorithms and automatically converts them to Bitcoin. You can even use your GPU, if it's a decent one.