Cloud mining lets you rent computer power from other people and make money. You will make more money if you rent computers.
Considering that most of the cloud mining operators tend to scam their users, I think the latter part shouldn't be included when your main focus is newcomers to this field
[it raises false hopes (unintentionally)].
That's true, including cloud mining is something entirely causing a spoil to the whole efforts he has made in talking about miners, mining and the blockchain technology itself, cloud mining should not be regarded as mining at all and newbies should stay away from any platform, project or influencers that promised giving rewards through this kind of process, everything will amount to waste of time because they were mostly fake and not rewarding.