I'm just dipping my foot in the pool and building a cluster with a Pi 3B as the leader and 3+ Pi Zero W's. (Three now, expecting to pad it as a lesson.) Am I s

I'm just dipping my foot in the pool and building a cluster with a Pi 3B as the leader and 3+ Pi Zero W's. (Three now, expecting to pad it as a lesson.) Am I shooting myself in the foot by using the Wifi ethernet to handle inter-device communication?