Part of the problem is that any directory inside datadir will be treated as a schema, which could produce some pretty odd results in this case. While changing mysqld --initialize to ignore this directory would fix the failure and be safe, to avoid having it be read as a schema we'd need to add the same to the default server config, which I'm a bit more reluctant to do, though granted it's not very likely that people will want a schema named lost+found :) As a first step we could add a check to detect the situation (since it does seem to be a fairly common use case), and add a warning explaining the issue.
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