Group work is often set up specifically to force this kind of "cheating". My course used it as a way to disguise the fact that students weren't learning program

Group work is often set up specifically to force this kind of "cheating". My course used it as a way to disguise the fact that students weren't learning programming. They tested everyone at the very start of the course to locate people who already were self taught, then assigned each group one self taught person who ended up doing all the work. The rest ride for free, everyone passes and the scam continues. I've tasted university education very little ever since. Academia is just flooded with intellectual fraud of all kinds. The students sense the lack of seriousness and accountability and realize that no matter what is said, that'll get away with it because the profs don't really care and in fact depend on cheating to survive.