Same, I just had the problem of wanting to display crosstabs between n raters which calls for a gridview of heatmaps. It was a 15min GPT job rather than struggling for 2 hours on my own. I got to worry about the salient parts of the problem than the minutia of matplotlib.
Now I’m thinking there must be many more libraries that are now “in reach” for me for casual use which weren’t just a few weeks ago.