Disable Featured Content

With using the Featured Content on the Posts page, the sidebar gets pushed down and the page looks garbled. I have no need for a “featured” anything, so I am looking for a way to disable this feature completely, or at least reduce its width so the sidebar remains the same on all pages.

I have looked at the author’s notes on GitHub, but that addresses “sticky posts”, which I have checked that box for any post either.

I am using a child theme, so I figured I could copy the featured-content file, delete all code that is in it, and then paste the new file into my child theme… this would be a last resort.

Thanks!