Short answer: No! WTF?
A maximizer usually has a saturation (distortion) element to it. That can lead to a bright or hyped thing.
Volume war style mastering (often done for the CD version of an album) usually has peak limiting followed by makeup gain of 10 to 14db and then a treble boost (often extreme with 10 - 20db boosts in the high end). These are loud and shrill and jump out of your ear buds! Normalize the volume and try to play them on a home hi-fi and they're a crude tinny not mess that sounds laughably bad.
Volume war levels: -9 to -6 LUFS
So... a maximizer style limiter/distortion box can lend itself to that.
More reasonable levels (including where streaming is set to nowadays) can be achieved straight off the mixing board and will sound better with more finesse that way. Otherwise just pure limiting of a db or two will usually get the level up without mad distortion.
Streaming level: -12 LUFS
-13 LUFS is a common target for 24 bit HD downloads and bluray disc.
CD versions are often still -13 to -10 LUFS (so... some the same as the 24 bit version, some still boosted a bit)
A mix that's not dialed in that well can be muddy or indistinct in other ways. Pummeling it with a limiter or maximizer is a crude way to get the level up. It won't sound as good as some finesse in the mix but it's done often enough. Hard to do any worse than the volume war CDs out there or some of the online "mastering" services (the quotes mean what you think and I swear these are all trolls).
Have fun with LOUD!