Not sure if I'm totally missing something but my little home icon in my menu went away. Not really sure what I did. Just upgraded to the latest Essential build and it was gone. I included a picture to clarify.
I don't ever recall Essential having a 'home' icon there. Perhaps you are thinking of another theme?
When you say 'latest' which version do you mean and what version did you have before?
I'm running the beta build of 2.9 before that I was running the test version right before the beta release.
That's strange because I do recall having a home icon in my menu. My apologies if essential never had an icon there. Thought it did.