Hello, I was thinking that it was weird that lubuntu comes with the stock LXQT application menu icon, so I thought I’d share what I use:
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Sorry, the above is a jpeg so it won’t work. Here’s a png file on imgur:
https://imgur.com/a/LvYDBmk
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The main menu icon on LXQt is usually provided by the selected theme. Lubuntu has its dedicated theme (Lubuntu Arc), which has the well known icon (the LXQt bird inside a blue circle).
This blue circle-bird is already specific for Lubuntu, and not stock.
It was probably introduced with the first official Lubuntu version after the transition from LXDE to LXQt (18.10). I was not able to verify that right now; unfortunately the first ever 18.10 version is not available on https://distrosea.com, but 20.04 got it already.
The various LXQt stock themes which come with any regular install of LXQt (Ambiance, Arch-Colors, Clearlooks, Dark, Frost, KDE-Plasma, Frost, and a few more) all have some kind of variant of the ‘bird’. In particular, the stock provided Ambiance theme has a bird inside an orange circle.
Somebody has thought about “our” bird, and the rest of the artwork from the Lubuntu-Arc theme. With a little twisting this theme, and hence the whole look-and-feel of Lubuntu, can be installed on any foreign LXQt system (e.g. stock LXQt on Arch Linux or Void Linux).
I always appreciate progress and changes in the look and feel of LXQt and Lubuntu. In this particulare case, with your proposal, I personally will not use it. It reminds me too much of the parent OS (Ubuntu).
But there is no accounting about taste, ofcourse.
Update
I could not find the ISO of the first LXQt 18.10 release. It is not here. But I found some screenshots of 18.10, and indeed, the first release already had the current circle-bird.
In the days before Lubuntu with LXQt, i loved LXDE as well. A lot, but I never fancied the strangely styled bird on the original 
-logo, as it still can be found on that other Lubuntu website (now defunct but still there).
Update 2
I took the opportunity to play a bit with Lubuntu 16.04 (using the LXDE desktop, not LXQt) on Distrosea. This brings back warm memories. I quit using Windows in 2010, replaced it first with Gnome and xfce, and finally arrived at Ubuntu. Stayed there a few years, and later continued using Lubuntu/LXDE.
Wow…what did I like LXDE! After some update of LXDE I had a serious reproducible problem with PCManFM (something with accessing files from a remote server). I contacted the developer (‘PCMan’) who told me that he more or less had abolished the maintenance of the original PCManFM, but was working on a new system based on the Qt framework.
The rest is history. Lubuntu/LXDE was a good system. Lubuntu/LXQt continued in the same line started by LXDE. Playing with Lubuntu/LXDE 16.04 brings back fond memories.
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Oh I see. Yes, I remember old LXDE lubuntu had the birdish icon, and the panel and icons were nice. LXQT has been a great, albeit different, improvement.
It might be good to include the new lubuntu menu icon svg or png in the home folder, so as to apply it to other panel and menu themes. This is what Debian does I believe.