As you can see in the hierarchy flowchart on the page that you linked to, Site Front Page will choose front-page.php before falling back to behaving like a normal page:
So if you want to have a specific template for the front page template of your theme you need to make those changes to front-page.php, or delete front-page.php so that it behaves like a normal page.
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