Homepage - revert recent changes

[dnenov]

Purpose

Revert recent changes to homepage under test mode. Fixes timeout on master-15.

Declarations

Check these if you believe they are true

• The codebase is in a better state after this PR
• Is documented according to the standards
• The level of testing this PR includes is appropriate
• User facing strings, if any, are extracted into *.resx files
• All tests pass using the self-service CI.
• Snapshot of UI changes, if any.
• Changes to the API follow Semantic Versioning and are documented in the API Changes document.
• This PR modifies some build requirements and the readme is updated
• This PR contains no files larger than 50 MB

Release Notes

• revert changes that allowed homepage to be initialized under test mode which is still causing timeout on master-15

Reviewers

@QilongTang

FYIs