This is literally what is wrong with people lately, they check sites like coinwarz etc on what to mine. The hivemind moves together and starts mining x coin and when they do that difficulty raises and profitability falls and they switch to the next only to do the same thing.

Mining isn't about a fast cashout, it's about speculation, holding your shares and choosing the right coin to exchange it into.

I mined on a laptop from november-december and made 2.9 btc profit back then, by mining on low difficulty coins that I thought would rise later on, some did, most didn't.

These multipools and gpu farms + the recent asic scrypt miners have ruined that part of the game. Now it's just trading that is left, or holding for a longer time and making a profit when value changes over a bigger amount of time.