[krumbie]

Yeah the recipes are Plots.jl's strength. We will need more time to get there, I've always felt that the statefulness you get from having interactivity gets in the way of easy composability a bit. In Plots, you assemble one big plot description from recipes that then gets translated to a backend representation once. In Makie (currently) each plot object gets instantiated immediately, ready to go for interaction. But in the future, we might add a layer on top that builds full descriptions first, like Plots, then instantiates at once.

As a side note, package extensions in Julia 1.9 mean that any package can now in principle extend Makie without directly depending on it. That should remove one of the big blockers for adoption, as admittedly, Makie is a heavy dependency to take on.