Group Fields Without Changing Field Names?

Hi,

I was hoping to group all of my fields to simplify the layout for the user but quickly realized this renames the fields and breaks everything.

Is there any way you could add an option to the Group Settings to not rename the fields when grouped? It would be nice to change up the layout for the user without changing hundreds of lines of code in the application every time, or implementing hacky workarounds like described here https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/saved-field-data-is-missing-after-grouping/. To me the whole point of grouping should be to change the layout for the user in the backend without making those groups set in stone for all custom code we write to deal with those fields.

I know the fields must be associated with a group somehow but there has to be a better way. Couldn’t you simply create a db entry for the group which contains all of the field names in the group and use that instead of prefixing all field names with the group name?

Thanks,
Brian