Calendar Customization

I love the calendar! but the current formatting makes it difficult to be really helpful. 6 rows per month is not necessary, and the margins allow for a lot of wasted space causing my events to be truncated.

The little gray ‘1 more’ or ‘3 more’ is too easily overlooked and should be highlighted.
More importantly, I would like to have a custom Monthly view that would show ALL events, even if that limits the rows to 3 or 4 in the main view.

I need to see at a glance ALL my upcoming scheduled events. I can use an external calendar for this, like Vueminder, but then I’m constantly having to export/import events, which is not DRY friendly.