Yes, I am very much in favor of dedicated, single-purpose devices like the Roon Nucleus or the Sonore MicroRendu, and getting general-purpose computers out if the picture (I have written at length here; some disagree.)
But a key point: it is easy to experiment. Start with Roon on a Windows PC with a USB spinning drive, evolve to dedicated hardware, it’s all few mouse clicks.
And start with WiFi, if that doesn’t satisfy you can pull wiring. (Personally, I use wired networking within the music room, Eero WiFi to the rest of the house and to the Internet.)