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Hello,
Setting the bind-address to 0.0.0.0 is indeed correct.
As you don’t have a firewall enabled on the MySQL Droplet, do you by any chance have a firewall on the server/PC that you are connecting from? If this is the case you might have to open port 3306 for outgoing TCP connections.
Alternatively, what I prefer doing is to connect to my remote MySQL servers over SSH with Table Plus as described here:
https://tableplus.com/blog/2019/08/ssh-tunnel-secure-database-connection.html
That way you don’t have to expose the MySQL service to the world.
Let me know how it goes! Regards, Bobby