With transports, the only thing that matters is jitter. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. This is the physics. No transport can match the jitter of a good outboard re-clocker, so if you add this to the transport, the transport is not important anymore. Does not matter what the transport is and what type of drive is inside. Similarly with a server that outputs S/PDIF coax. Jitter is still the main concern and an outboard re-clocker fixes that.
You are absolutely right that jitter and eliminating/minimizing it is of utmost important and that one way to do that is an outboard word re-clocking
unit and also use of a master clock. The rest of what you assert I cannot ever agree with but that does not make you wrong and me right, it's just
an opinion.