Aligns with my experience as well. Way back when I got my MSEE, there was a guy in the group that did literally no work towards the final project. Tried asking the prof for help, but crickets. Turn-in time comes around for the report and we leave the guy's name off of it. I get heavily peer and prof pressured to put his name back on after some sob story comes out. Got some pretty valuable takeaways from that class and none of it was related to the course material.
Not sure if others did this but when I did group projects (25ish years ago) we did the project and submitted or presented as a group. But at the end we also submitted to the professor (anonymously) “grades and comments” for others on our team.