  Discrete flavor symmetries provide a promising approach to understand the
flavor sector of the standard model of particle physics. Top-down (TD)
explanations from string theory reveal two different types of such flavor
symmetries: traditional and modular flavor symmetries that combine to the
eclectic flavor group. There have been many bottom-up (BU) constructions to fit
experimental data within this scheme. We compare TD and BU constructions to
identify the most promising groups and try to give a unified description.
Although there is some progress in joining BU and TD approaches, we point out
some gaps that have to be closed with future model building.
