This only occurs when highlighting is enabled in the query parameters on page load. If you load a page like wiki/Special:Watchlist?limit=500&days=30&enhanced=1&watchlistactivity__unseen_color=c1&watchlistactivity__seen_color=c2&urlversion=2, you'll see that FilterTagMultiselectWidget calls the parent onChangeTags method, and then we end up at updateIfHeightChanged where a resize event occurs.
It doesn't seem like we need to call the parent onChangeTags while the app is still initializing.