A digital cable is not just a cable that happens to carry ones and zeros — impedance matters, using a mic cable for AES works until it does not, and every system that sounds inexplicably brittle has two clock masters.
A digital cable carries ones and zeros, so it either works or it does not, and any cable will do. That is the intuition, and it is wrong in two specific ways that cause real problems.
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