Downgrading will be a pain, because you’ll need to downgrade your entire LAMP stack too.
If you’re in a Development Environment, the easiest workaround it to disable 2FA completely until you setup SMTP:
bin/magento module:disable Magento_TwoFactorAuth
I’ve also read that the email may not be sending as the Postfix ports may be closed. So you could try adding Outbound Port Rules for 25, 465 and 587. I think those are all the SMTP ports for Postfix, but you’d want to double check.