Why does pppd not use dialout group and does use dip?

I just googled for what the dip is.

"dip means Dialup IP . It was written by Fred van Kempen and has been
patched very heavily by a number of people. Today there is one strain
that is used by almost everyone: Version dip337p-uri , which is included
with most modern Linux distributions, or is available from the
metalab.unc.edu FTP archive."

Why do such a general software piece like pppd use the group which is
named after some old crappy software? There's a special group named
"dialout" which has to be used.

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  first user created on the system needs to be in dip group

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