Solution
OK, I could get it solved with the help from this thread. Wondering how did I miss it before. Here is the trick for someone got the same issue.
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->string('username')->nullable()->unique();
});
nullable() makes sure that the newly added column is filled with NULL for existing rows.
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