I would say both yes and no to that. It is very easy to rewrite history, but the 2000-2010 was a bit different for me.It's the kind of thing that's built on hindsight. I'd agree that the 2000s were Apple's high point in terms of Mac hardware, and it's obvious to see why—if nothing else, having more hit products has divided Apple's attention since.
But Apple in the 2000s also had misses, like the Power Mac G4 Cube. Their pro towers had issues (speed dumped G4s, wind tunnel G4s, leaking G5s.) As mentioned earlier, even under Jobs the dedication to the Mac Pro heavily slipped. Mac OS X was rough the first couple versions, and people plain hated parts of it (the complaints about Big Sur's flat look are kind of hilarious in comparison to the fury that was debates about brushed metal!) They spent half the decade putting out new models that started out competitive and then became slower and power-inefficient than the competition. Final Cut Pro went from revolutionary to behind the technological curve remarkably quickly (many a suspenseful college coursework render I remember when you just had to hope the progress bar was lying, because you had no idea when the dang thing would be done.)
I always come back to Snow Leopard, an OS revision that has cemented itself in the Mac fan consciousness as arguably the pinnacle of OS X—and yet the thing was buggy as all hell when it launched. I remember the Apple Store filled with boxes they'd added point revision stickers to because you did not want to get stuck with 10.6.0 or .1. And half of its reputation for stability is just that it was around longer than planned because Apple had to pull resources from Lion.
We're pretty good at talking ourselves into remembering "golden ages" that didn't quite exist like we remember them.
For me the "apparent Pro focus" was what made me jump back to Mac OSX in 2008, so it is certainly not hindsight for me. I had followed the gradually improving high end part of the mac line very closely for several years.
The combination of Leopard followed by Snow leopard, MacPro 3.1 (arguable the most bang for the buck Pro Mac ever released), Aperture (I am a dedicated hobby photographer), the close links to Linux, the rather easy integration with Windows, the testing of ZFS and loads of high quality third party equipment. My friends working with massive multiprocessor Linux clusters used Macs to control the systems due to the nice and stable interface. For me all that was enough to without hesitation make the jump back to Mac. It could certainly only get better from there