Muscle Hypertrophy is irrespective of type of equipment you use!

If you're going to do a comparison of traditional heavy resistance training with weights versus, let's say, bands, your muscles, in essence, don't care what kind of tension is put on them.

Whether you're pulling on a band or pushing a car or lifting a weight, your muscle senses it as tension. And tension, in general, produces growth. And in fact, even if you look at some endurance athletes like rowers, swimmers, even cyclists, if you look at their legs, the kind of tension they apply is not weight training, is not similar to weight training, but it's enough tension that they get some hypertrophy or some growth. But this growth is not proportionate. For proportionate growth that builds whole body parts, you have to put stimulus to each and every muscle group. Other than full body resistance or strength training other types of sports person lack development of some parts or most of the parts depending upon which type of activity is being chosen. 

There's some newer research showing that doing very heavy weights, low volume versus high volume lower weights, produce similar hypertrophy. So, at least in terms of hypertrophy, your body has multiple ways of responding or there's multiple stimuli that can produce a similar response.

Training for muscle hypertrophy, you have multiple ways of getting to the same place. And that could include band training. It can include using chains or whatever.

Sport scientists recent studies where they've compared different rep ranges to see what would produce hypertrophy. And the conclusion is - hypertrophy is relative to the level and type of stimuli provided to muscles cells. But the provision should be purely scientific. That means, hypertrophy depends on how and how well you perform exercise or physical activity. Hypertrophy is not directly related to how much weight you able push or pull. And it does not depends upon what type of equipment you are using. Hypertrophy depends on constant stimulus you are providing to your targeted muscles which depends upon perfection in rhythm, ROM, rep range, biomechanics, respiration, muscle mind connection; same consistency, method and perseverance till the end.