What? MySQL continues to work just fine. 8.0 (which was admittedly released two years ago) was the biggest release in ages in terms of new features and removal of things that should have been removed decades ago. Then there's MariaDB, which is named differently purely for copyright reasons and could be considered the 'real' MySQL (since its dev team are Monty and friends). I don't think MySQL came out of Sun's disintegration badly at all.

To be more precise: 8.0 finally has proper utf-8 out of the box, support for complex replication topologies (including multi-master), window functions, CTEs, etc.