Last week I came across a bug in MySQL 8.0, which meant that the absence of mysql.user leads to auto-apply of skip-grant-tables (#94394) would leave MySQL running in an undesirable state. My colleague Sveta Smirnova blogged about the issue and it also caught the interest of Valeriy Kravchuk in Fun with Bugs #80  On [&]

https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/02/28/mysql-8-0-bug-94394-fixed/