SAME ISSUE
Your answer was: "We are continuing to monitor member feedback. Since members have many different opinions on the home page, we are not currently planning to make any significant changes to the current elements."
I don't believe anyone ever complained about showing the title and partial first line of each post. And if you had a problem showing the beginning of each post, wouldn't you have stopped it on all the blogs. Instead you have continued to show the title/first line on the new posts, on the featured blogs, on the Top 100 blogs and in every place I can find except for the top ten blogs on the front page.
Why would you single out only that feature, and not list the title of the latest post, when you list it everywhere else?