This seems like a bad change - if you want to make article cards smaller why not simply move the image to the left of the headline/extract, or get rid of the im

This seems like a bad change - if you want to make article cards smaller why not simply move the image to the left of the headline/extract, or get rid of the image entirely? After all the image is often entirely useless (say for instance an article about an abstract concept like finance that uses an illustration of a stock price chart), and most of the information is usually gleaned from the headline.