Stumbled upon issues when updating from an older MariaDB 10 release to MariaDB 11 when some Go software was trying to connect to it using a MySQL driver. Seems like people have similar issues with other stacks as well as well: https://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=111697

I could just use MariaDB drivers where available, but honestly MySQL seems more popular and the MariaDB SPAC and layoffs soured my view of them; ofc PostgreSQL is also nice.