I get you.
If the section where badges go were at least made horizontally scrollable, it would already be better. I’m just making this single point. I’ve made more ones on the relevant new badges topic.
I think one of the design oversights here is separation of concerns. There should be instead a separate, floatable top section where you place any cards, and otherwise, anything including badges must be usable anywhere else (which, as some here may know, are possible with a custom component). Cards and placement/layout are two different things.