Lol? Hyperthreading/HTT/SMT never existed before Xeons in 2002, it was literally created by Intel and then introduced to Pentium 4 desktops later that year. Let's not pretend that it was always there since the dawn of humanity and that Apple did another "innovation" by removing it so why the heck to even pull comparisons with Apple there at all?
That's 22 years ago. Let's be real - that's an eternity in the computer world and it practically has been there "forever."
The only reason I can see for the Apple comparison is showing that another high end chip does very well without HT - meaning that not having it isn't going to be a death blow to the CPU. At least in theory anyway.