iPhone SE 2020 Home Button

This is normal behavior. Since the iPhone 7 (2016), the home button is no longer a mechanical button. When you turn your phone off, you will see that the button isn't press-able at all. It's a solid state button, any movement is simulated by the taptic engine (vibration motor) that lays underneath.

It's just the vibration motor (taptic engine) that is located underneath the home button. It's no longer a mechanical button.

Sucks, doesn't it? I returned my first SE 2020 thinking it was a POS that wasn't assembled properly. Just got a new phone last night. Was at the store past closing, get home and realize I have the same issue - another POS. I don't know how a person "gets used to this" as it drives me crazy. Maybe we just need to voice activate so we don't have to touch the home button.

Shame on Apple for releasing junk!!!

That was one of the main reasons I got the new iPhone SE 2020 because it had the home button. Sad that I’m not using it. I set it up Assistive Touch just now and am checking it out now. Thank you so much for the suggestion!

You can set the home button haptic vibration to level 1, 2 or 3 by going to Settings > General > Home Button and choosing one of the options. It lets you test them to see which one you like. I really think, though, that if you give it a chance it won't bother you after the first week or so, and you'll hardly even notice it. Level 1 is pretty unobtrusive, although the variation between levels is not much.

Why don't you do the upgrades - I just manually installed 14.2