@btaylor7 it seems you’ve hit the same problem as in Unable to create more than one database in same server (MySQL) - #5 by filiphr. There has been change in the MySQL 8.x JDBC driver in one of their defaults. So you would need to add nullCatalogMeansCurrent=true to the URL. This would create the tables properly.
The user tables are never populated with the flowable starter as well. Only the UI Apps are populating some default users.
Cheers,
Filip