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The setting is 'Autocomplete searches and URLs', just type it in the settings search box. It's still there.

Indeed it's still present. Thanks for pointing it out!

!!!

Scrambles to check settings

It's over in chrome://settings/syncSetup now.

If the default is set to something else, say DuckDuckGo, it'll go there instead right?

At some point the new tab page stopped being replaceable something less distracting/compulsive like your own custom url. Your homepage can only apply at startup. It isn't something that should have to be an extension.