Stock Launcher App

That's weird. I looked through my wife's M8 app list, and couldn't find the usual suspects either (like Home, Launcher, HTC Sense). Other forums mentioned "BlinkFeed Launcher," so that's why I thought it was right.
 
By the way, how do you know BlinkFeed isn't the launcher? Did you try Clear Data? Does that reset the homescreen to factory defaults?
 
I have reset the animation speed in developer options (speedier) and I need to disable the stock launcher to get it set correctly.