Mining has its own fun and once you start doing it you do it for your own satisfaction apart from earning profits. But yes its better to buy in terms of profit ration since in mining you have to invest lots of efforts while on exchange price of MASS is very much in range these days.
It will be a bit funny if you compare Bitcoin halving with MASS token. Bitcoin till date is supreme leader of crypto market while MASS price is 0.03$. We need to be a bit realistic while marketing something. Knocking out one of the most mature product of crypto market only makes you less appealing in the market.
We also need to be realistic about the shortcomings in BTC and other top alt coins like ethereum, PoW has serious short comings that sooner or later need to be addresses. PoC and other consensus algos are the ultimate way forward that will take over the consensus algo in coming days. Just my few satoshis.