Flow is worried about side effects changing the values of these instance variables after they're checked.
To avoid the errors, I extract the instance variables to local variables before the checks.
NOTE: CI will fail on this diff. I considered the possibility of fixing Flow errors BEFORE upgrading Flow, but it wasn't possible... in some cases, the fixes to support the new version of Flow caused errors in the old version. I could have hidden these type errors with $FlowFixMe lines and then later revert those, but that seemed like too much busy work.
Depends on D9781