I tried several days but seems that mining this coin is not fair enough to get profit or to get good amount of coin, yeah you are right buying this coin is the best option for now and wait for the ath and sure win for the profit.
Its natural that when coin get listed on exchange and has good value its complexity increase since more people are now mining that coin. MASS is now on 4 different exchanges and I feel it will go way more up from here.