Who cares whether Steve Jobs was involved in the new Mac Pro or not. His involvement (or lack there of) doesn't make it a good or bad product.
Apparently it does to people who keep saying Apple isn't innovating anymore. That seems to be the sine qua non in their mind to a productive Apple -- everything is mindlessly judged by them as Jobs era or Cook era. I merely point out that as far as actual project line up goes though it's still the Jobs era because products are not developed over night. Even Cook said Jobs left Apple with 4-6 years of new products. And for one to say the new MP is not novel, whether they like the concept or not is disingenuous.
So once cannot say Apple doesn't innovate anymore unless they mean Jobs lost his touch his last year... but he was lucid during his last keynote at WWDC '11, just months before he passed.