Matplotlib is my go-to despite being mediocre. I recently found proplot library built on it which seems to solve a lot of the warts (particularly around figure layout with subplots and legends). I haven't had a chance to use it yet - does anyone know if it's worth it?

I like to stick to basic, widely used tools when possible so I'm biased against it versus just wrangling it out with matplotlib. But proplot does look compelling, like it was written for exactly my complaints.