In theory you could get a better summary if it manages to reason out underlying motivations of a summary for example, or proposes a summary and then "considers" it, realizing it missed something.
You can illicit that with any model by prompting underlying reasons or using chain-of-thought, but a reasoning model could do it without prompting
You can illicit that with any model by prompting underlying reasons or using chain-of-thought, but a reasoning model could do it without prompting