The process of opting in to Flow takes a few seconds, and while it's running, the talk page may display errors or load incorrectly. This is a problem because it is probably common to have a user opt in to activate Flow and then immediately click on their talk page link to see their new feature -- but if done too quickly, the page will display errors that may make it sound like the entire system is broken.
We should come up with either a way to alert the user that things are still in process, or to set the expectations to the fact that things will take a few moments.