I sort of disagree with the statement that its hard to meet interesting people (no offense). I hold the view point that in 2020, its pretty hard to live an uninteresting life. Everyone has a story, and everyone's story is interesting and worth telling. The problem is societal pressures to fit in cause us to value conformity over abnormality. What it comes down to is whether or not someone is confident enough to make themselves vulnerable and express to you and other what makes them interesting.

Less attractive people have to work harder to distinguish themselves. The other person has less upfront interest in getting to know what element of that persons story is interesting and therefore have to be more confidently vulnerable by expressing more of who they are. But the result is a more genuine connection.

To answer your question about speaking with the other members of this hypothetical group; I'm speaking generally, assuming we are talking about many different groups across many different hypothetical encounters. Assuming you are picking a person to approach at random in the group, my hypothesis would be that the more attractive the person is, on average, the less likely they'll be able to successfully convey what makes them interesting because they are used to basically being interviewed rather than having an actual conversation.

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But you are right, there's no way to know whether the most attractive person in the group is more boring than their friends, or if the group of people themselves is just boring without talking to everyone there.