It’s normal because custom page templates are only for pages. Once it becomes the page for posts it’s no longer displaying Page content. It’s displaying a list of posts. A Page Template wouldn’t be designed, built, or optimised for displaying a list of posts.
If you want the main blog page to appear different to the index template, then you just need to create a home.php template, as you can see in the Template Hierarchy.
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