Anything is better than mining in a bear market, even playing the lottery. We are not in the bear market, this is still bull market, bear market is negative profit.
Everything is better than mining in bear market except investing on altcoins and BTC using Fiat or stable coins unless you have almost free electricity, many miners became a king 👑 in 2020 because they failed to shut down their rigs in bear market.
I have solar panel