Why does pdf become smaller file after opening in illustrator?

A client sent me a 12-page pdf with type changes that had to be done in Illustrator to almost half the pages. I openeded them in Illustrator, fixed the type, resaved as pdfs and replaced those pages in the pdf with the revised ones. After the first round of corrections the file went from 58 MB to 24 MB. After the second round of corrections the file has gone down to 6.3 MB! Some of the corrected pages in the pdf contain high resolution photos. Onscreen the images look just as sharp as in the original pdf. How could the file have gotten so small, and how will it affect the quality if it's printed on an offset press?

MMM, good ideas thank you!
When I open in Acrobat its fine. When I open as PDF in Illustrator its
corrupt.
When I place in a new ai file, as a link, its fine. When I place in new
file, embedded, its corrupt.
However, when I open as a PDF in Illustrator or place it as an embedded PDF
into Illustrator, it includes all the layers, I can select the separate
corrupt layers and delete them. So it turns out I can get rid of them with
this process.
It seems perhaps its an indesign thing, and a Indesign Tables thing. When I
outline the Table and its contents, it creates another layer of outlined
text on top of the live text. If I try and delete the non-outlined text, it
deletes the Table lines?? So if I leave it as is, I believe its the live
text underneath that is substituting for some reason?

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