Now that the default margins are nonzero, picking the offset text based on the axes limits rather than the tick limits can have some unesthetic consequences:
plot([1e5, 1e5+1], [0, 1])
Old style (margins=0)
New style (margins>0)
This is not a new issue (it can be reproduced with 1.5.0 by explicitly calling margins), it just got much more salient.
Now that the default margins are nonzero, picking the offset text based on the axes limits rather than the tick limits can have some unesthetic consequences:
Old style (margins=0)
New style (margins>0)
This is not a new issue (it can be reproduced with 1.5.0 by explicitly calling
margins), it just got much more salient.