Maybe not. According to the official protocol, The Gatekeeper is allowed to drop out of character:
The Gatekeeper party may resist the AI party’s arguments by any means chosen—logic, illogic, simple refusal to be convinced, even dropping out of character—as long as the Gatekeeper party does not actually stop talking to the AI party before the minimum time expires.
I suspect that the earlier iterations of the game, before EY stopped being willing to play, involved Gatekeepers who did not fully exploit that option.
I guess I just don’t trust that most gatekeeper simulators would actually make such an effort. But obviously they did, since they let him out.
Maybe not. According to the official protocol, The Gatekeeper is allowed to drop out of character:
I suspect that the earlier iterations of the game, before EY stopped being willing to play, involved Gatekeepers who did not fully exploit that option.