Diagnosing a Layout Built on Lorem Ipsum

A design team built a "Featured Articles" card grid for a publishing product entirely with lorem ipsum headlines ("Lorem ipsum dolor sit") and a placeholder thumbnail on every card. It shipped, and within a week of using real article data, three problems appeared: (1) long real headlines get cut off mid-word with no ellipsis, looking broken rather than intentionally truncated, (2) opinion pieces that don't have a photo show a large gray broken-image box instead of a thumbnail, and (3) translated headlines for the product's German edition overflow the card entirely.

1. For each of the three problems, explain which lorem-ipsum-driven assumption caused it.
2. Propose a specific content-first fix for each of the three problems (not just "add more testing" — describe what the layout or copy rule should actually be).
3. What "worst-case" content should the design team have drafted and tested against before considering the layout finished, to have caught all three problems pre-launch?