You can Stake your Etherium to maximize profit. So there are two forms of staking. You can stake with the ethereum foundation so that they have enough tokens to pass through future changes to the program. This gives you a decent rate However you are locked until those changes are made.
Alternatively you can stake (lend) your coins to other stake pools, exchanges, swaps etc for a range of rates and terms. Kraken, Swissborg, WhaleFin etc all offer these types of services.
I’m of the view that earning a few % per year in the native token is a handy bump and ultimately will come to replace other forms of income like bonds.