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There are absolutely labels, titles, and the ability to save figures to files.

I used to deliver project reports to customers using a combination of Julia and LaTeX. It was perfectly suitable for that application.

I think they mean no GUI for that. To manually (rather than programatically) do this.

...it's a programming language, not an Excel competitor.

You could use Julia to build some kind of GUI plot-making tool.