Bug summary

I'm used to using the Axis API like ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(...) etc., so to be consistent it would be nice if one could do ax.xaxis.set_label(...) instead of ax.set_xlabel(...). It seems like ax.xaxis.set_label(...) does not label the axis however.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.xaxis.set_label("x-label")

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

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Matplotlib Version

3.8.3

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Installation

conda