@Stahesh @sardonicsmile

Also bench press fails to utilize maximum torque for the same amount of weight because the arms are bent

It is claimed because of Lombards paradox more muscle groups are worked in compound movements but you have to think not just about which muscles but which part of which muscles

Compound movements usually fail to strengthen muscles near the end ranges of movement where they are longest or shortest but only tend to strengthen them in the middle range of movement