I agree, trying to save on costs early on is basically betting against things getting better. Not only that but in almost every case people prefer the best model they can get!

Not only that but I think our selling point is rewarding creativity with emergent behavior. I think baked dialogue would turn into traditional game with worse writing pretty quick and then you got a problem. For example, this AI game here does multiple choices with a local model and people seem a bit mild about it.

We could use it to cache popular QA, but in my experience humans are insane and nobody ever says even remotely similar things to robots :)

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2828650/The_Oversight_Bur...