Currently all images except the standard image is >= 3.0 GB. I think providing a smaller graphical image with enlightenment (or icewm or wmaker or even all three together) to provide a graphical smaller disk image would be nice. It can be useful for smaller pen drives and people just wanting to test live images with more features than standard image (check video driver, wifi driver, sound and other hardware before installing).
Debian-cd don't have anything to do with the live builds except to test them occasionally. I doubt that the images will get smaller - they effectively include a live filesystem to copy into RAM in order to run so they need to be that big. Adding another desktop or three will require another dedicated image and there's nobody much maintaining live images at all at the moment, unfortunately. All the very best, as ever, Andy C.