A couple of comments:I think it paid off! I did a little looking up of this strain before growing and the breeder claimed it handled defoliation well. I have to agree!
If you spend some time reading through descriptions on seed vendors sites, you should pick up pretty quickly that the verbiage is reused. I won't say that it's all bullshit but the same hackneyed phrases are repeated over and over again.
Re chopping off leaves - it sounds like your plants regrew the leaves that you cut off. That's great. You now have as many leaves as you did before but your plant hasn't grown as much becayse instead of growing a larger plant, the plant had to replace the ones that you cut off. No reason not to keep doing that so that you'll have nice fresh leaves when you cut the plant down and throw the leaves out.
My goal is to maximize crop yield and quality and to maximize cannabanoids. I have zero belief and have never see any evidence that a cutting off leaves and getting the plant to regrow them will accomplish my goals.