Frontend Mentor Question & Feedback

https://www.frontendmentor.io/challenges/article-preview-component-dYBN_pYFT Attached are the desktop and mobile versions. My question is: I feel like the way I set up the layout is too hardcoded. I relied a lot on max-widths/heights instead of letting the content be dynamic. I'd appreciate some feedback; this was a lot harder than it should have been for me especially since I'm not exactly new to html/css, so I guess I'm not as good as I thought I was 😂 https://codepen.io/vince1444/pen/YzOgYeM