Special:EnableStructuredDiscussions is great. Alas one can spend several hours pasting in the name of existing talk pages to convert, and then pressing Submit.
It should also take a list of pages, like Special:Export.
Or at least on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Structured_Discussions/Activation mention how do deal with many pages.
Yes, often the user has nothing to fill in for the big 'Initial description of Structured Discussions board (wikitext)' box below, so disallowing it for multiple page submissions would be no big loss.
Note I am talking about e.g., Miraheze here, not Wikimedia wikis.