I wouldn't be surprised if the field's increased emphasis on reasoning, summarization, tool use, etc and optimizing for benchmarks on those factors might come a

I wouldn't be surprised if the field's increased emphasis on reasoning, summarization, tool use, etc and optimizing for benchmarks on those factors might come at the expense of less emphasized/measured features like explicit recall. And that might not really be a bad thing. It's generally more useful to have something that can access (say) a specific dataset about video games and summarize its content to answer questions than it is to have one that needs to encode and recall every answer to every long tail question itself.