I have tried so many plotting packages including Matplotlib but also others like R's base plotting, ggplot, Mathematica's plotting, etc. and I have to say I rea

I have tried so many plotting packages including Matplotlib but also others like R's base plotting, ggplot, Mathematica's plotting, etc. and I have to say I really dislike all of them. I am not sure why, but they all seem very counterintuitive compared to the way my mind things about plotting. This is especially true when it comes to formatting the plot. How I wish there were sane defaults for text size, etc. As much as I like Python for it's fairly clean and elegant syntax, I actually prefer making charts in Excel/OpenOffice. I would love it if someone made a hybrid model where you could put plotting into code, but yet once the basic plot was created, a GUI could be used to modify the appearance of the plot without remembering the syntax for all the graphical parameters. Maybe it could be a system where you run the code, and once the plot function is run in "interactive mode", an elegant GUI comes up and allows you to modify all the graphical parameters, and puts the required code into the plot function as parameters.