Upper/lowers or other higher frequency splits can be very effective and certainly as good as a fullbody if programmed right. They can also give your a lot more freedom and versatility for more advanced work. Fullbodies are great for when they work and for one you don't have other issues that need to be ironed out (for which a higher frequency split can be much better, imo) But they can be limiting in many ways. Lord knows I worked the heck out of fullbodies, but no one can find one ultimate way of training that will always be the best. Planned overreaching, likewise, is just one tool in many.

I think the mistake people make is that with fullbodies they rely on tried and true programs that have distribution of intensity, volume, etc....there is fatigue managment built it...basically it's all been figured out and somewhat perfected for general use. Or, if not that, it's just the pure simplicity of the program that comes to the rescue. For some of the splits, people try to get all fancy and program stuff they really lack the expertise to do.

When it comes to something like upper/lowers the mistake is that people fail to properly distribute things, get less "results" and blame it on the method rather than the utilization.

Hell, most people just push too much volume in the first place. I've noticed a misunderstanding in the use of "heavy" and "light" days also. People are assuming that anything with "higher reps" is automatically easier and contstitutes recovery for your body versus "heavy" days. Even though the light days have beaucoup volume and things are usually being done near too failure. If you are taking around a 12 rep max, for instance, and doing 3 or 4 sets of 10 it's not really "light". The weight is lighter sure, but the effort is not light. The metabolic demands it places on the body is not necessarily light. This is not to say you can't do that of course!

For an example, when I do upper lowers the "volume" or higher rep days are just as demanding on my recovery as the "heavy" days, and according to what I'm dong, can take longer to recover from, except perhaps for heavy deadlift days sometimes.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.