So with a safe prompt there is always a chance the AI will go on a bad direction and then refuse to work, and make you pay for the tokens of his "I am sorry ....long speech"
In theory, a full blown LLM gives you a lot more variety and ability to handle novel situations, but it also gives you a lot more potential for conversational gambits that don't affect the game mechanics in the way you want them to and general weirdness (I love the article's anecdote about the Sim who thinks his neighbour Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations!). I'm sure someone will ultimately end up designing great LLM-driven game experiences, but I don't imagine they'll look much like The Sims.