Parmandur
Book-Friend
Well designed NPCs and factions have real motivations and modes of operation. Filing serial numbers off complex NPCs and organizations should never be that easy, IMO, otherwise your NPC or organization was so generic as to be meaningless anyway. An adventure in Waterdeep and in Sharn can certainly have the same plot, but it is the details that matter.
Rather, NPCs and organizations that can have their serial numbers filed off or be repurposed are handy to have for Dams prepping from a module. Give enough to run it straight from the book, but not touu much so as to make it unusable for recycling and recombining. It's a fine line, but that is what they are going for in these products.