In general, there are two ways to acquire bitcoins: buying them with real money or "mining" them. The process of mining is the process of acquiring bitcoin, and therefore mining is mining for coins.

So let's start with buying coins. Many people think that buying currency is like buying stocks. The threshold is low and anyone can buy it directly. In addition, they believe that the cost of buying coins is low, so they only need to pay the money to buy coins. But buying currency such as investing in stocks, the income is also big risk, you buy currency in the hand, the price of the currency rises you earn, the price of the currency falls you compensate. And the early need to do a lot of homework, which is similar to buying stocks, which requires you to understand the background of the investors all kinds of information, need to in-depth understanding of all kinds of basic information, according to their own cognition to make choices.

In fact, you can invest Bitcoin quantitatively every day. You only need to invest once to obtain long-term returns. As long as your machine is up and running, it generates a certain amount of bitcoins every day, and the benefits are endless. Acquiring bitcoins this way does not require you to watch the price every day, wait for the price to rise later, and directly trade in cash. Relatively speaking, cloud mining is the lowest cost.

Although the return of buying currency is high, the risk and return coexist, so investors also need to bear the risk of the currency price falling. And mining money is drought and flood guarantee. As an investor, we should take a long-term view of mining machine production.

I'll go buying Bitcoin rather than spending time doing cloud mining or even spending a lot of money acquiring mining equipment.
Besides, if we talk about earning a profit and having a safe play, buying and holding Bitcoin is gonna be preferred. And maybe because I don't like mining and I have no knowledge about it as well.
But if we talk about cloud mining, no - it doesn't work.

Buying is effortless and better.

If you don't intend to be a miner then you don't have to mine and make an effort of building everything. Just buy and hold it on however long you want it to hold.

The goal is to have at least 1 BTC before another unexpected huge bull run comes.

It is based on one's financial strength, because buying bitcoin during this bear market seems to be fair than spending on mining equipments. As the above mate suggested, rather than being a miner just buying and holding will bring assured profit long term and there is no need of unwanted pressure handling the maintenance and other power issues associated while mining.

These are, in my opinion, the two independent ways to obtain bitcoin. Depending on how you want to get it, you have two options. If I were to give advice, I would recommend to only buy if you have funds you are willing to risk or can afford to lose. If there is no money, mining will require patience. You can choose between buying or mining; both options are valid.

Investment wise, i'll go buying. Mining will take years before you reach your ROI.

Those user who chose mining should have enough reasons not just simply, "to have profit in the long run", "help blockchain network", "learn technicals", etc. We're talking money and investments, simply a business.
There are lots of consideration to mine bitcoin. Location, hardwares ^{(including installations and maintenance)}, electricity, man power, running a business regulation/requirements, lastly a huge sum of capital. Now if you have it all and have easy access to them, then that's a good choice to go mining.