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It's the people, not the group. Often, the name is pure superficiality. Obviously, If all the people disappear or stop working, the group is frozen or dies. If all the people reappear and start working together again, the group is revived. Couldn't be any simpler than that.
Those viewing it from the outside might see a group as a singlular entity or an accurate label, related to quality, important for reputation, etc. But it doesn't really mean much.
Group (A) may have existed for 5 years, and used the same name for that whole period, but at the same time the staff of group (A) may have turned over 3 times, and no original staff members remain. Perhaps they all went on to groups (B), (C), and (D), or quit entirely.
Group (B) could be composed entirely of staff who left group (A), group (C) might be composed partly of members who left (A) and partly from a smattering of other groups, group (D) might have only a few members from (A) and gone on to recruit more members, etc. That's the way the real world is, but one who goes by group names alone will never see that part.
Often quality is a reflection of the people behind the project and the processes used, and group labels are only partly related to those two.
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