Variant group import improvement

| Q                    | A
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| Bug fix?             |
| New feature?         |
| BC breaks?           |
| CI currently passes? |
| Tests pass?          |
| Scenarios pass?      |
| Checkstyle issues?*  |
| PMD issues?**        |
| Changelog updated?   |
| Fixed tickets        |
| DB schema updated?   |
| Migration script?    |
| Doc PR               |
not really nice to have a method and property with exactly the same name