That's how it's always been to my knowledge.  There is a link on that page that you can click to get to your homepage.

Personally I'd rather go directly to my homepage because I can see my forum posts under my avatar, and I don't really care for post counts so I don't feel a need to see it when I click to look at my homepage.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi