No - You can control which moderators can edit uses (and thus play with groups). But the nature of groups - you'd never want anyone seeing groups that they aren't a member of - or else people can see secret groups.
So the only real improvement is that rather than a global setting to allow moderators the ability to edit, you can customize it for specific moderators.
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