I think this would be a nice addition to reduce the number of groups to maintain.
Just wondering, what category would the group owner be a moderator of? How would that be decided? Thanks 
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Right now, you can specify groups as Category Moderators in the category configuration.
As our instance of Discourse has quite a few non-public categories, we require two groups for their permission management: One to control visibility, the other to control category moderator status.
By setting the group owners as moderators, a single group would suffice.
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I’ve often thought that would be very helpful too!
You might find it possible to use Discourse Dynamic Groups to achieve this; I’m not sure if it can be configured to detect who is the owner of a group at present, though.
While it would not reduce the group number nor simplify the initial config of each private category, it would mean that the groups of moderator/owners would not need to be actively maintained (which I’m guessing is your main pain point).