Unfortunately the above way will load the vars at a higher precedence then group_vars. Also if you have multiple groups with the same var but differing values y

Unfortunately the above way will load the vars at a higher precedence then group_vars. Also if you have multiple groups with the same var but differing values you will need to start loading multiple files (or you can do |default, and use an alias to the value in group_vars (which leads to even more spaghetti)).