Hi @Josh_Taylor, welcome to the Asana Community Forum 
Thanks for taking the time to provide this feedback! We do have an existing request for the option to “Show more” by default already in the forum. You can vote for this feature here: How to disable "show more" in Calendar view, so that it shows everything always
Regarding a different task type to show an ongoing task (that takes up less space), I hear you! Hopefully this is something our Product team can implement in the future.
I’ll keep you posted and let you know if we have any updates 