I think staking literally benefit the project mostly as it is being rolled out to keep their price stable and most importantly to boost it. So for you to have agreed to stake your bought share into their pool, it means you've 100% to take to their losses too if goes the other way. But keep in kind that your staked unit of coin is increasing too as time passes. So to my bit of advice, staking is good for people willing to hold for long and longer days.

Mining on the other hand is sweet and profitable but I prefer to have it in NFT pools. As it brings much larger rewards.