See this discussion:
https://vmware.slack.com/archives/C055BSG8E/p1709799850327309
queue_master_locator only applies to mirrored classic queues, which will be removed in RabbitMQ 4.0, so this policy setting should be removed as well.
queue_leader_locator is the setting to use for QQs and Streams.
Describe the solution you'd like
Remove queue_master_locator setting.