Hey @astro,
This was playing on my mind and I couldn’t resist having a quick go at coming up with a solution, and so, I’m excited to share my latest plugin that aims to help achieve this.
Persistent Account Menu for HivePress
What it does is display all of the role-relevant Account menu items that a user or Vendor can usually activate conditionally - by default, instead.
The resulting page they land on shows an icon, brief description and a relevant button link. Here’s an example:
I’ll create a seperate topic to release this properly, but for now you can download the plugin here.
I hope you find this useful. Let me know if everything works as expected on your end! 
PS: This might be a nice optional feature to include in the Core settings? - @ihor
Cheers,
Chris 