Oh yes, I'm agreeing.
The symmetry view is that if everything is the same, perfect formless, there is no cause.. and your points apply here.
The view is, from a point of view of physics, a break occurred in this symmetry.. a point unlike all the others, which brought forth a difference-in charge let's say. This began the cascade of reactions, force/cause, result/change, force... cause arose due to there being a break in formless symmetry. This results in cause and effect, space and time. As you describe.
So rather than space/time expanding from big bang, it can be viewed as broken symmetry cascading out, like cracks in an ice pond.