Sure, if you want to stall early and make no progress.

You have to eat more to lift more.

Doesn't mean you have to go full NFL Combine mode and eat 7000+ calories/day. But 1800 cals/day won't cut it (unless you are trying to cut weight, wherein progress will stall for a while).

You’re not considering that the more muscle mass you have, the higher your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR), which means you burn more calories passively by just existing, let alone what you burn during exertion and recovery.

BMR changes by how much, exactly? it's useful to show some numbers, as a rule of thumb, not just throw something out there.