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To gain strength and muscle you need to stress your muscles, rest to allow them to adapt and then stress them again. It is harder to stress the muscles of a well trained person as they are conditioned therefore they use a targeted exercises to really home in on exactly what they want to stress.
for an untrained person, big compound moves will give you this level of stress easily and build core strength throughout. You just don't need to target things in the same way. More so, targeting too much will leave you with an imbalance of muscle which will lead to injuries.
Keeping it simple will also allow you to track progression well, which is a motivation, give you a clear plan to get through on shit days, and cut the time spent in the gym.
If you squat and deadlift 3 time a week for 2 months you will really change your body shape.