You suggested bringing Ikpeazu back, so yeah it is a poor understanding because he doesn't fit into our style of play at all...
Just because he is "a striker by trade" doesn't mean he'll do what we need.
The problem we have isn't not having strikers, we've always "had strikers". The problem is we keep doing what you seem to want to do, and sign just anyone...
Britt, Fletcher, Gestede, Rhodes, Hugill, Balogun, Connolly, Sporar, Braithwaite.... Let's go even further back, Ishmael Miller, Marcus Bent, Dave Kitson...
You seem to want to just keep adding names to that list?