i mean most survival shows kind of necessitate that you prioritize your one pick over any thought of group composition or harmony and of course everyone watches survival shows differently but in the end even if you’ve been considering the composition of the overall group over the course of the show, it still comes down to your one pick. there’s that saying that’s like the second you start worrying about your second favorite, your bias dies. so even when you are considering it, you’re 1) probably considering it based around your one pick and who would suit them and 2) not necessarily going to be in agreement about any of that with the thousands of other people voting with THEIR one pick in mind. so it doesn’t matter if the group is oops all dancers and there’s no one who can sing or there’s someone who is kind of just there on visuals or whatever the case may be because the priority is carrying your one pick until the end.

that same fostered loyalty throughout the show is also why a lot of times survival show groups struggle to create a unified fandom in the aftermath as well because it’s hard to put down the mentality of fighting for your bias in everything even after the fight is over and especially with temporary groups there IS the looming knowledge that you are probably, in at least some capacity, going to have to do it again when the first contract is up so it often remains a “every man for himself” vibe.

with created groups there tends to be more thought put towards the overall group vs the individual. obviously this is not always true, but in comparison to survival show groups overall group composition is weighed more heavily than the individual parts that make it. even when a created group is crafted around debuting a specific trainee.

there are typically specific roles a company will look to fill depending on the goals and image they have in mind for the group. honestly you can see that even in the way groups get rigged (or in the case of bp where voting could not be rigged explicitly, through editing and other means).

honestly idk i think both methods have their pros and cons and there are groups that were made via survival shows that have successful compositions and groups that were created solely by the company that don’t. but i think in general the format of most survival shows makes it more difficult to create a harmonious group composition vs a company curating and pulling from a specific pool of trainees to create a group that way.