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You need to change the default authentication mechanism in MySQL 8 to use mysql_native_password.
Is there a way to solve this problem by changing the maxscale setting rather than changing the mysql setting default_authentication_plugin?
Unfortunately no. You must either create the user with the mysql_native_password or set it as the default authentication plugin in the server.