Custom category loop

I’ve looked and not had any luck with what I’m trying to find, I want to have a homepage that features no posts but only 12 parent categories with their descriptions, and then show up to 8 subcategories per parent (some parents have more subcategories but most are under 8). There will be no posts on the homepage.

Most everything I’ve come across deals only with looping through posts.

Is there a better way than using get_categories() and then using foreach loop to list them out on the page?

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