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Took me a while to understand what's ambiguous about that. For anyone else, what they're saying is that this often (typically, I guess) refers to 2000-2099 and not the other 900 years.

Could make the convention to say "the twenty hundreds" when referring to [2000, 2100), and "the two thousands" for [2000, 3000).

I actually really like that!

But then how about [2000, 2010)? During the current time period, I expect people are more likely to refer to the decade rather than the century or millennium.

I don't have a good solution for that. Perhaps we're finding out why people have come up with weird terms like "naughts" or saying "aught-five".

Not "another"; the article addresses this, and admits to not having a good solution, aside from just writing out the actual dates as you did.

Alternatively: the third millennium.

life in the 20s is weird.