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First off, welcome. Yes, this program is aimed primarily at beginners, so the lessons are fairly ground-level. As time goes by, and a player develops more dexterity and comfort, they can embellish as they like.
The same thing kind of applies to playing songs. This program isn’t built around playing songs like some other programs are — it’s built around providing you the tool set to play songs. You’ll find a lot of this in the “skill courses” section, where you’ll learn chords, strumming patterns, and so on, so instead of learning to play “Heart of Gold” and getting the G, C, D, and Em chords, we go the other direction here. We learn G, C, D, and Em, then we play “Heart of Gold,” “One of Us,” “Last Kiss,” or any of the 10,000 other songs that use that set of chords.
If playing songs is more your thing, there’s nothing wrong with augmenting what we do here with song lessons as well. YouTube has a ton of guys who are very good at that — Marty Schwartz (Marty Music), Justin Sandercoe (Justin Guitar, though he’s more of a toolset guy too, and the songs are a means to that end), David Potts (Song Notes), Shane Simpson (Guitar at Work), and Shutup & Play all come to mind.
I’ve been watching all those guys for a while, and one thing is for sure — doing what they say to do got a lot easier after some time here with Tony. Tony’s program is sneaky, too — I just do the daily lessons, and songs get easier to play.
Good luck on your journey!