I'll stand up and disagree here.
We can't be throwing around the words urban myth and bro-science without backing yourself up a bit more quantitatively. For example, up until your DLI target for the day (aiming to mimic a nice summer day likely), more photons hitting the bud surface does indeed result in denser nugs. This is trivial physics, bordering on the graduate level with respect to optics. As space on the flower surface fills with cannabinoids and such, the gaps in-between get smaller and smaller. More photon density means more light locally in-between these gaps. I think the problem with the response below is understanding where the micro level and the macro level meet. Even at the simplest form, cannabinoids are deposited to shield the plant from the environment - one factor of which is LIGHT.
Or, for example, 'common dogma' about N in flower - well the common dogma is pretty easily demonstrated with nutrient requirements shifting when you try to reveg, right? Like you could just show that to yourself, repeatedly, if desired.
Possible deficiency? Sure. Possibly 100% normal for the plant late in flower? Sure. I wouldn't be giving this plant anything other than pHed water and/or a flushing agent. Either way, you're about to harvest and why waste nutrients? Do this long enough and every move you make in your room is about pennies and efficiency.
And not for the hat trick, but I also disagree that you defoliated too much. That is an incredibly subjective finding.
I grow for my medicine, and I demand white ash that floats on the wind and flavor. I purposefully flush to force this type of effect late in flower (especially in soil whether inert or not). There are many reasons why I do this. One reason is to try to burn up as much in the foliage around and intertwined with the bud as possible, any sugar or chlorophyll you get out now is going to be less you have to get out later. Really that just makes your dry and cure phase more amenable to something going wrong in the future, and is not a mandatory step.