Using ideas from Shelah's recent proof that a completely separable maximal almost disjoint family exists when $\mathfrak{c} \lt {\aleph}_{\omega}$, we construct a weakly tight family under the hypothesis $\mathfrak{s} \leq \mathfrak{b} \lt {\aleph}_{\omega}$. The case when $\mathfrak{s} \lt \mathfrak{b}$ is handled in $\mathrm{ZFC}$ and does not require $\mathfrak{b} \lt {\aleph}_{\omega}$, while an additional PCF type hypothesis, which holds when $\mathfrak{b} \lt {\aleph}_{\omega}$ is used to treat the case $\mathfrak{s} = \mathfrak{b}$. The notion of a weakly tight family is a natural weakening of the well studied notion of a Cohen indestructible maximal almost disjoint family. It was introduced by Hrušák and García Ferreira, who applied it to the Katétov order on almost disjoint families.

We study the cardinal invariants of analytic $P$-ideals, concentrating on the ideal $\mathcal{Z}$ of asymptotic density zero. Among other results we prove $ \min\{ \mathfrak{b},\cov\ (\mathcal{N}) \} \leq\cov^{\ast}(\mathcal{Z}) \leq\max\{ \mathfrak{b},\non(\mathcal{N}) \right\}. $