Not necessarily, you can replace that information to guide the user. Similarly, replace the icons or images.
The tools we have are limited and we cannot do much.
For example, when creating a page I can put the latest topics from all categories of the forum. In the same way, place "last files" in the Downloads area, following this example the same would be done with other areas such as: Blogs, Clubs, etc.
So far so good, the problem is when a community is large and every day there are many topics started in the forums, Downloads, Blogs, Clubs, etc.
On the home page that we have created it would show only 5 topics from all the forum categories, of course, we can also divide the sidebars, so that it shows the topics from a specific category, but that would take up too much space and an overload on the "home page "also taking into account that the forums have many categories.
So, it would be unnecessary to have a page that shows 5 topics from each area, forums, downloads, blogs, clubs, etc., because every 5 minutes it would be updated with new content, and it would be very difficult to appreciate the topics that interest me from the "home page "The only thing we would achieve would be to overwhelm the user by having too many sidebars, plugins or some application that we use to display the content of the site.
So the best thing would be to show a nice design from the "home page" to show what is necessary in each area with a short description to guide the user and show him what he really needs or wants to know. We would also achieve better SEO and page load.