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Correct

Just carrying clock over a wire means it is now susceptible to all sorts of jitter causing issues.

What's even worse is that the device accepting a word clock input may need to use PLL to recover the clock and to filter out jitter caused by the signal transmission.

The end result is certainly no better than an internal clock, and may not even be better than a clock recovered from SPDIF.

The saving grace is that the DAC can rebuffer the data knowing that the signal can be synced back to it's master clock. However, not all DACs that send word clock out do this.

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