Salesforce Fact #710 | Auto activate process/flow setting
By default, active processes and flows are deployed as inactive in production org. But there is a setting under Process Automation Settings which auto-activates the deployed flow/process. This change applies to autolaunched flows and processes which are deployed through change sets and Metadata API and this setting is available only in production orgs. Reference: https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.flow_distribute_deploy_active.htm&type=5