File sizes - Click through selection

How bout looking at the ballooning file sizes?
I just got pissed off at how slow illustrator was (using the new cs4 version and "mistakenly" left a couple layers pallet open) and did a copy-paste into Freehand and finished the job.
When done the freehand EPS file was 52k.
Illustrator's file size for the same project? 1.1 MB
Good Lord! import that into an InDesign file . . .
Click through -
If they could use a "click through" model to access items beneath layers like in inDesign and Freehand they wouldn't need to have all these layers and tiny layer previews for every tiny little piece of art on the page.
Maybe that would save some space. Sure hard drives are getting cheaper all the time, but why are these files becoming so huge?

Kirby,
are you recommending to downgrade the original image files, even if the JPEGs in question are the only copies? JPEG compression is lossy and creates horrible artfacts, if it is applied too heavily. But even with only a sllght JPEG compression applied, it is difficult, to apply any adjustments, like sharpening, after the compression.
My iPhone photos are 8MP in size and the average file size is 3MB. I am quite happy with that amount of storage and would not compress the originals further.
As a test:
To the left, the original JPEG with 3.85 MB and to the right a compressed version with 598 KB.
Looking at the pixels (the sun hat at the bottom of the picture) : the stronger compression hides the details:
Or the pine cones:
I don't apply any JPEG compression to original files, beyond what the camera does anyway.

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