SharePoint Online Intranet - A new approach? What are your thoughts?

This is the direction I'm leaning toward too. I see this approach as the best way to leverage all the recent investments from MS.

User lands on the designated Intranet Homepage (hopefully a Modern Publishing Site this time next year!) to get their quick glance at important and new organisational information. Where applicable, curated informational pages live here from the rest of the organisation.

Once our user has decided "I need to get something done", they head for SharePoint Home from the app launcher. I really like the way this works out of the box, hopefully our user should see the site they need right there at the top of the page.

My only customisation needs/wants for SharePoint Home, is to perhaps define which site sits at the top left, in position A1. Maybe have that first tile as the top promoted site, with frequent sitting to the right. I'd like to have that control as this space is a bit noisier than the feature sites list.

Custom app tiles are great for the things traditionally added to a quick links or resources menu, we're adding to these all the time. Works especially well with the new personalisation options in the app launcher.

The only thing i do beyond that, is to use the cutom clickable logo in the Office 365 suite bar as a link back to my designated intranet homepage. Gives users a nice anchor point to quickly dive back to the intranet from anywhere, when they need it.