Not Mining RVN but buying “some”

Hello Ravencoin Community,

I got into RVN like 2 months ago. I see more and more people claiming it is more profitable to mine RVN now instead of ETH. Right now I mining on Nicehash (to get BTC, to buy RVN) because even if RVN is slightly more profitable, it does consume more electricity. I did mine a week or two RVN directly in a pool 2miner ->flypool, earning about the same value but with more costs. Am I missing something? Doesn't more profitable mean having more profits/gains?!