If you rewatch all his fights, of the guys he absolutely ran through, he was considerably bigger and stronger, or in much better shape, than all of them.
Chael, Machida, Shogun, Vitor, Rampage ... all blown up middleweights or burnt out lhws.
Guys near his size who were still in their primes, he looked average against. Decision against Rashad. Gus made him look like this, and Gus's career tanked after that fight:
The DC wins, which were his best, he was in fact roided to the gills for. These don't count.
End of his career, post-pulsing pictogram, he looked very underwhelming. Limped past OSP, didn't get the finish on Anthony Smith even after a crushing illegal knee, didn't get the finish on one-legged Santos, arguably gifted a decision vs. Reyes (whose career also fell off a cliff after this fight).
If post-pulsing Jones had to fight some hard body stud like Rakic or Jiri, he'd get his head taken off.
Jones is a fringe top 10 all time, but only because of an extremely weak division. If the division had been filled with guys like Rumble, Rakic, Jiri, and the like in the post-USADA era, he would have gotten his ass handed to him multiple times. Or got popped again. Instead he fought guys like Anthony Smith and an OSP on the downturn of his career.
Contrast this to DC who beat some very legit guys at the end of his career, including Black Beast, Rumble, Stipe, etc. He was more of a stud than Jones will ever be, picking up guys twice his size over his head and slamming them down like a crash test dummy.
I will say this loud and clear - Usman, Volk, Conor, Adesanya, Khabib, etc. have all surpassed Bones on the GOAT scale.