> In Matplotlib I still don't understand what is the right way of initializing a pyplot, there seems to be a million ways to do it and a million parameters you can give. API changes and inconsistencies too pain me at times

Matplotlib has the worst API of all Python libraries I have used over the years!

If there were a fork of it that got rid of Matlab-way of doing things (keeping only OOP style) and with consistent names (no more `twowords` and `two_words`), I would gladly switch in a heartbeat.