Putting lower-clef notes on the upper-clef

I'm trying to improve the readability of a piano piece, in which the left hand part repeatedly dances from low-low to mid-high and back again, all within single measures. (Rachmaninoff's morceaux de fantaisie op. 3 elegie in Eb) I'm aware of 3 ways to express these:

[#1] The default, where little ladder-steps are provided for any left-hand notes that breach middle C
[#2] Switching the clef of the lower part to treble, mid-measure
[#3] Ctrl-Shift'ing the treble-wannabes up, creating a mid-clef beam with notes sprouting out in both directions

Usually [#1] is fine, but not so much when there start to be 4+ ladder-steps. Neither of the other options look great either (though [#3] feels least-bad in some of these cases). What I would like to try, however--and can't figure out how to implement--is to significantly shrink the mid-clef whitespace, Ctrl-Shift the offenders up, but have the beam remain below all of them. (And then angle the beam steeper than usual, lest the stems grow too long.) Is this possible without getting too fiddly? (i.e. without artisanally positioning every single component)

[Please correct me where I've misused terms or been ambiguous--my musical vocabulary sorely needs improvement!]