"People who say the term ape is “unhelpful” if used that way - Coft"
It is unhelpful. Because it gives rise to dumb questions like "if humans evolved from ape's, then why are there still apes?"
Humans, chimps, gorillas are all apes. We are different branches that all descended from a common hominoid ancestor. Go even further back and all primates including monkeys will have a common ancestor. (all apes are primates, but not all primates are apes)
You can keep carrying it back and eventually you'll reach a common ancestor of all mammals. You can carry this even farther back until you reach a common single celled ancestor of all life on earth.