It can’t be a skinshortcuts issue as it only controls the way the home menu is built. @tony-r’s screenshots clearly show that also other parts of the skin are affected. It looks very much like the profiles bug we addressed a while back…
Are you using Kodi profiles and is this happening with a different profile than ‘master’, @tony-r? If not, I’m pretty much out of ideas as I’ve never seen this before unrelated to profiles.
Please have a look at this thread: Item Text Missing after November Update It looks like the same issue and suggests that it’s some settings corruption issue. The solution advised there did help the user to solve the problem 