I'd rather mine a crypto the way we do on steem. By using it, creating, and interacting. We can do this without extremely powerful machines, and we can do this without using much electricity.

The truly beneficial things mining does for a crypto are handled by our witnesses, and we award them for doing it. The rest of us mine by using the platform.

It is the way to go. The mining to solve puzzles and such that are increasing in difficulty was neat when it first came out. Now that things are evolved a bit in the cryptocurrency field that type of mining seems kind of stupid to me.