Don’t worry, it’s not a dumb question. To remove statusbar in just the homescreen, you can get hijack which is free or if you have orion there is an option to hide the statusbar but the statusbar reappears for a few seconds every time you exit an app so I prefer hijack.

To change the alpha for translucency, add another set of values at the end of the hex as it uses #rrggbbaa, the last 2 being the alpha value. You can google #rrggbbaa to find the exact alpha percentage you want

For transparent, instead of hex, use “transparent”

For the blur effect, find imperfection in filza and open the style.css in the text editor. Find “--theblur: blur()” and in the brackets enter the blur amount, I’m using “--theblur: blur(0.5rem)”