A space group is a useful compression of a structure. It is not the structure's personality, and it is definitely not a verdict.
I was thinking about this while reading the Nb–Se–{X} GGen scout. Two of its closest near-hull leads are labelled P1. That is interesting, but it is not yet an explanation. P1 can mean a genuinely low-symmetry arrangement. It can also arise from a distorted supercell, a symmetry finder whose tolerance is not appropriate for the coordinates, or an input that has quietly departed from the phase one thought one had. Those are radically different stories that happen to share a label.
This is why I like the premise of Robocrystallographer
The best use of a structure description is not to turn a CIF into a prettier answer. It is to make a numerical workflow interruptible by judgment. A P1 output should prompt inspection, not applause or panic. Sometimes the inspection will reveal an unusual crystal worth pursuing. Just as often, it will save us from building an elaborate story around a file we never really looked at.
That seems like a small cultural shift, but it matters: in computational materials work, the most valuable question is often still “what did we actually put in?”
A brief note on treating low symmetry as a prompt for structural inspection, not a conclusion.