MySQL 8 has a lot of functionality that MariaDB lacks. People like to criticize MySQL for some bad engineering decisions made decades ago. For whatever reason,

MySQL 8 has a lot of functionality that MariaDB lacks. People like to criticize MySQL for some bad engineering decisions made decades ago. For whatever reason, often these folks have a more positive view of MariaDB, but without stopping to consider where all those original MySQL engineers went. FWIW one of the footnotes in the original article touches on this too.