-pagespeed-insights-discuss +mod-pagespeed-discuss
Maybe something like the following happens:
When you let mod_pagespeed defer scripts that modify the layout (css, or dom) of a page, "/pagespeed_static/js_defer.XXX.js" gets marked by PSI.
It gets marked, because it performs deferred execution of the original scripts of the page. When these update the layout, it is has become render-blocking.
I think that rewriting the page to not depend on javascript for rendering a (sensible) first view is the only way to eliminate the resulting PSI complaint.
Scripts that are essential for rendering a sensible first view to visitors are probably better not deferred. (e.g. when they transform a desktop site to a mobile version).
mod_pagespeed offers the "data-pagespeed-no-defer" attribute, which you can declare on script tags that you want to exclude.