Don’t confuse the water baptism as the real baptism. The real baptism takes place spiritually not physically. The water itself does nothing. It is only a physical symbolism of what has taken place spiritually.
I agree that water without the Spirit is not baptism.
The Apostles physically baptized with water as Jesus commanded them to do.
Jesus told them, “Unless one is born of water AND the Spirit....
And also, “baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.”