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It all depends. If you have cheap power and 10k+ to spend on mining equipment, one could argue that it's easier to maintain and service a single $10k SHA256 Bitcoin ASIC with similar yield to 10 $1k GPUs with obviously many more points of failure like 30 fans and such. But for small-scale, I noticed in pure profitability aspect, it seems GPUs are no bad choice and you can get paid out in BTC indeed from some services.However, if you like mining 'real' Bitcoin at home, thus supporting the network and not giving hashpower into shitcoins, there are a few things you can run quietly and at low power at home. It's mostly either an Apollo BTC, some Compac F's and I believe also downclocked S9's are a possibility.
Even if you don't 'make profit' but barely cover power costs, you'll be getting non-KYC attached Bitcoins and DCA'ing through the power bill, which is a pretty cool concept. Even if you get slightly less than your power expenses, you can think of it as a 'no-KYC tax', but in many places you're going to be 'DCAing with a discount' if you mine at home, getting not only BTC anonymously, but even for less cash than if buying on an exchange.
