What on earth is with this website?

Literally half the page is covered by a massive photo.

I expected scrolling further down the article would rid me of it, but it doesn't - furthermore, it's aligned to the right instead of the left, which breaks my brain while I'm trying to read it.

I can't imagine any benefit to this layout. Shrinking the screen causes the article to display properly, I learned, and I couldn't find a Reader mode...

Great article - extremely poor formatting in Desktop mode.