For you and your system. @audphile1 for others that is not the case.
Interested to know what FMC and FSP’s you used in your trial. I had the exact opposite experience but then again my network only has 2 meters of copper in it. And I use quality FMC and rolled FSP's to find the right combo. My entire house is fiber and our town is all fiber.
I have tried:
1. Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System. Did it do something ? Yes! It smoothed out dynamics, tamed the highs and relaxed the mids. Soundstage collapsed. None of the effects were desirable and I sold it
2. Fiber optic conversion - adds glassy and cold character. Didn’t mike it
3. iFi LAN iSilencer - made zero difference or if it did make a difference I can’t hear it. Because it does no harm I left it in my system
Other than using the best possible Ethernet cable and keeping your network components out of your system and plugged into a different circuit, there’s nothing else to do with Ethernet.