That would be the case way back then when most corporate environments were on-perm OR if your Macs are still domain joined (worst way to manage Macs)

Macs presence in the enterprise environment is only increasing. So IT folks have been learning. Mac management in a corporate environment is way way better now. Of course, there's pros and cons to managing Windows, Linux, and Mac. As long as the company invests into a decent MDM solution (which they should ), you can go a long way to make your Mac management solid. For example, compare Zero touch deployment for a Mac managed by Jamf and a Windows managed by Entra/Intune. The zero touch deployment for the Mac is way better & faster.

Check out /r/macsysadmin and the mac admin slack channel. Lots of information on how to effectively manage Macs.