While it might be the case that many websites have a dedicated "home" menu item, I think even more websites use the pattern of the corner logo serving as such,

While it might be the case that many websites have a dedicated "home" menu item, I think even more websites use the pattern of the corner logo serving as such, to the point that if a site offers both, I'm using the logo every time. It's one of those things that perhaps verges on anti-pattern in discoverability, but is so ubiquitous that most people probably don't even think about whether that's true or not.