Ivan54 Mark-Kashman I agree, the Sharepoint home could be the go to place, but it's just not feasible without having all sites listed somehow, being able to somehow control order, placement, etc. And with the featured links area hidden in the lower-left, it's really not often accessed. Additionally, if you strip out the global nav, that means that users need to hit the waffle every time they want to navigate to a site, find the SharePoint icon (which moves around randomly like other programs in the menu), then find the site they are interested in.
It's just disappointing. I walked through everything else I could and basically, Communication Sites could have been ready for prime time in our tenant, that's how solid they are so far for me. Now, I can't use them. I suppose I could build the navigation with an SPFx web part.... because...... I want to do that everywhere. It's also a punch in the face as the global nav is honored everywhere else in the site (site content, etc). It's like the new beautiful pages are taunting me. And to add insult to injury, to use the early version of Microsoft Forms, your tenant needs to be in First Release for Everyone. You will not break me Microsoft!