Safari 13.1.2 first few Favourites icons don't show

I've been facing this issue from a few days into Catalina update (about 3-4 months now). Whenever I open a new tab or safari, the bookmarks (favourites) icons don't show up. I've tried reseting cache from develop menu but it did not fix it. I've had to format my os once recently, that did not solve it as well! as soon as my bookmarks were fetched from my account, the problem came back! Pressing the "Show Less" followed by "Show More" (aka collapsing and reopening) does fix the problem but opening a new tab the issue reappears.

Thing is, only the first few rows are not shown for some reason which is very annoying as most of the quick bookmarks are supposed to be there.

any help with this is much appreciated.