All links except "Home" are italicized & have a different background color, no matter which page you are at. This creates the false impression that you are on the "Home" page.
That's to show that you aren't logged in, and shouldn't be clicking those.
If some part of the UI is not usable then it should not be displayed, except where it is necessary to understand things, which it IMHO isn't here.- I didn't even think of your interpretation! So clearly this is ambiguous. Go fix it