What difference does a docking station make? Sometimes you want to spend a minute or two setting up your laptop in a more serious way, and that's just as reasonable with or without a docking station.
I've put a disproportionate number of hours and $$$ into my homelab over the years, and I still only have 2.5G Ethernet switches deployed. Most offices' (much less home/coworking space/etc.) network traffic is passing through single-gigabit switches.
That said, I'm kind of sad that Framework and others have generally opted to let "third party USB-C docks" be the docking solution. I miss the days when my Thinkpad dropped onto its docking station with a purpose build bottom connector and seamlessly became a desktop/deskside type computer that was wired into my desk setup. Sadly I think that vision of docking died with the Thinkpad's sale to Lenovo.
For $20 you can get something that will pass through power from a USB-C charger, 4k HDMI to a monitor, and provide gigabit ethernet and some USB ports. We're no longer in the bad old days of USB 2 where USB ethernet was noticeably slower - or of $$$ vendor-specific, laptop-specific docking stations.
And if you don't have a dedicated desk where you can set up your docking station, you're probably not going to enjoy the wired ethernet experience, because without a desk you'll have to crawl around to plug your ethernet cable into a floor port every time you move desks.
I still have a soft spot for laptops with built in ethernet ports, though, for connecting to devices in the field.