They definitely did appear to have a disdain for desktop computers for a while, clearly lots of management at Apple really believed that everyone was going to switch to iPads and MacBooks.

But that very changed when they had that roundtable to tell people they hadn't forgotten about the MacPro. Since then they delivered the iMac Pro and then significantly boosted Mac Mini.

They length of time they took to update the Mini does suggest though that they didn't plan to update it but did so when they knew the new Mac Pro was taking a long time to arrive.