Having this is actually useful, because users do need to check if they actually have a home-button: 1. Always setting this may lead to false-positive home button presses on some models (IIRC, this has been around for a long time) 2. The home button typical is a windows logo printed on the front of cheap windows tablets below the screen. Recently I was adding info for yet another such cheap tablet and I asked the user to test the home-button since the windows logo was clearly there visually. But on this specific model touching the windows logo does not do anything.
I vaguely remember that some users also reported Android-targeted tablets where the surface covering the soft-touch buttons was simply an extension of the whole touch surface, and not send any explicit key press events.
But I may be mistaken, or it was a bug in an older driver version that didn't support touch buttons well.