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That's not how Compound Clips work. They're like a rendered sequence, not a grouping which applies changes to every clip inside them.
When you change Clip Duration, you're trimming a clip. When you do that on a Compound, you're choosing which portion of the overall Compound will be played. If you trim it to a duration only long enough to play the first clip of the Compound, that's what you'll get.
You're not applying that Change Duration to every clip within the Compound - to do that you'd need to right click on the Compound, Open In Timeline, then trim the original clips inside. Or Decompose the Compound, trim the clips on this timeline, then make a new Compound Clip afterwards.
The idea of a 'grouped' clip is a good one, and something I've wished for a lot. Nested timelines and Compound Clips are very useful, but they also have a lot of disadvantages which result from the fact that they're effectively like an automated render of the clips inside.
It could be really useful to have a group clip that behaves more like a Fusion Group - ie it can behave like a single clip, but also still exposes all the individual clips inside, and without an effective render step.
That's a feature request though, and probably quite a big one.