Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities

When saving out a PDF, unchecking the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" checkbox results in a smaller file because it's not emedding "another copy" of all information that Illustrator would use to open the PDF if you tried to open the resultant PDF in Illustrator.
When saving out a PDF, unchecking the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" checkbox the data in hidden layers is excluded from the file . . . right?
Now for my question: Then why does deleting hidden layers right before saving a PDF with "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" unchecked result in an even smaller PDF?

Thanks for your response!
layers that you've deselected
I haven't "deselected" layers, I've deleted them, right before saving the PDF.
And you're right, it's when I delete hidden layers that contain raster bitmap information that I see an even further decrease in filesize.
But, when I DON'T delete layers with rasters in them and save out a PDF with "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" turned OFF, leaving the hidden layers at the time of saving and then open the resultant PDF in Illustrator, the data in those layers hidden at the time of saving is NOT there - so then what downsampling? If supposedly downsampled rasters ARE NOT even saved in the non "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" PDF?

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